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Robert Haas 09c5acee8e Rename some functions to mention Relation instead of RelFileLocator.
This is definitely shorter, and hopefully clearer.

Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed by Dilip Kumar and by me

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20220707.174436.1885393789789795413.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
2022-07-12 10:26:48 -04:00
Thomas Munro 718aa43a4e Further tidy-up for old CPU architectures.
Further to commit 92d70b77, let's drop the code we carry for the
following untested architectures: M68K, M88K, M32R, SuperH.  We have no
idea if anything actually works there, and surely as vintage hardware
and microcontrollers they would be underpowered for modern purposes.

We could always consider re-adding SuperH based on evidence of usage and
build farm support, if someone shows up to provide it.

While here, SPARC is usually written in all caps.

Suggested-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> (the idea, not the patch)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/959917.1657522169%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-07-12 11:05:32 +12:00
Robert Haas b2d5b4c6e0 Fix mistake in comment.
Kyotaro Horiguchi

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20220708.145951.382076151410075693.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
2022-07-11 13:33:21 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 2cd2569c72 Convert macros to static inline functions (bufpage.h)
Remove PageIsValid() and PageSizeIsValid(), which weren't used and
seem unnecessary.

Some code using these formerly-macros needs some adjustments because
it was previously playing loose with the Page vs. PageHeader types,
which is no longer possible with the functions instead of macros.

Reviewed-by: Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/5b558da8-99fb-0a99-83dd-f72f05388517%40enterprisedb.com
2022-07-11 07:21:52 +02:00
Thomas Munro eed959a457 Fix lock assertions in dshash.c.
dshash.c previously maintained flags to be able to assert that you
didn't hold any partition lock.  These flags could get out of sync with
reality in error scenarios.

Get rid of all that, and make assertions about the locks themselves
instead.  Since LWLockHeldByMe() loops internally, we don't want to put
that inside another loop over all partition locks.  Introduce a new
debugging-only interface LWLockAnyHeldByMe() to avoid that.

This problem was noted by Tom and Andres while reviewing changes to
support the new shared memory stats system, and later showed up in
reality while working on commit 389869af.

Back-patch to 11, where dshash.c arrived.

Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220311012712.botrpsikaufzteyt@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ31Wce6HJ7xnVTKWjFUWQZPBngxfJVx4q0E98pDr3kAw%40mail.gmail.com
2022-07-11 16:43:29 +12:00
Robert Haas b0a55e4329 Change internal RelFileNode references to RelFileNumber or RelFileLocator.
We have been using the term RelFileNode to refer to either (1) the
integer that is used to name the sequence of files for a certain relation
within the directory set aside for that tablespace/database combination;
or (2) that value plus the OIDs of the tablespace and database; or
occasionally (3) the whole series of files created for a relation
based on those values. Using the same name for more than one thing is
confusing.

Replace RelFileNode with RelFileNumber when we're talking about just the
single number, i.e. (1) from above, and with RelFileLocator when we're
talking about all the things that are needed to locate a relation's files
on disk, i.e. (2) from above. In the places where we refer to (3) as
a relfilenode, instead refer to "relation storage".

Since there is a ton of SQL code in the world that knows about
pg_class.relfilenode, don't change the name of that column, or of other
SQL-facing things that derive their name from it.

On the other hand, do adjust closely-related internal terminology. For
example, the structure member names dbNode and spcNode appear to be
derived from the fact that the structure itself was called RelFileNode,
so change those to dbOid and spcOid. Likewise, various variables with
names like rnode and relnode get renamed appropriately, according to
how they're being used in context.

Hopefully, this is clearer than before. It is also preparation for
future patches that intend to widen the relfilenumber fields from its
current width of 32 bits. Variables that store a relfilenumber are now
declared as type RelFileNumber rather than type Oid; right now, these
are the same, but that can now more easily be changed.

Dilip Kumar, per an idea from me. Reviewed also by Andres Freund.
I fixed some whitespace issues, changed a couple of words in a
comment, and made one other minor correction.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoamOtXbVAQf9hWFzonUo6bhhjS6toZQd7HZ-pmojtAmag@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmobp7+7kmi4gkq7Y+4AM9fTvL+O1oQ4-5gFTT+6Ng-dQ=g@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-vTe79M8uDH1yprOU64MNFE+R3ODRuA+JWf27JbhY4hJw@mail.gmail.com
2022-07-06 11:39:09 -04:00
Andres Freund 3f8148c256 Revert 019_replslot_limit.pl related debugging aids.
This reverts most of 91c0570a79, f28bf667f6, fe0972ee5e, afdeff1052. The
only thing left is the retry loop in 019_replslot_limit.pl that avoids
spurious failures by retrying a couple times.

We haven't seen any hard evidence that this is caused by anything but slow
process shutdown. We did not find any cases where walsenders did not vanish
after waiting for longer. Therefore there's no reason for this debugging code
to remain.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220530190155.47wr3x2prdwyciah@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 15-
2022-07-05 11:01:10 -07:00
Michael Paquier eb64ceac7e Remove durable_rename_excl()
A previous commit replaced all the calls to this function with
durable_rename() as of dac1ff3, making it used nowhere in the tree.
Using it in extension code is also risky based on the issues described
in this previous commit, so let's remove it.  This makes possible the
removal of HAVE_WORKING_LINK.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220407182954.GA1231544@nathanxps13
2022-07-05 12:54:25 +09:00
Thomas Munro 389869af59 Harden dsm_impl.c against unexpected EEXIST.
Previously, we trusted the OS not to report EEXIST unless we'd passed in
IPC_CREAT | IPC_EXCL or O_CREAT | O_EXCL, as appropriate.  Solaris's
shm_open() can in fact do that, causing us to crash because we didn't
ereport and then we blithely assumed the mapping was successful.

Let's treat EEXIST just like any other error, unless we're actually
trying to create a new segment.  This applies to shm_open(), where this
behavior has been seen, and also to the equivalent operations for our
sysv and mmap modes just on principle.

Based on the underlying reason for the error, namely contention on a
lock file managed by Solaris librt for each distinct name, this problem
is only likely to happen on 15 and later, because the new shared memory
stats system produces shm_open() calls for the same path from
potentially large numbers of backends concurrently during
authentication.  Earlier releases only shared memory segments between a
small number of parallel workers under one Gather node.  You could
probably hit it if you tried hard enough though, and we should have been
more defensive in the first place.  Therefore, back-patch to all
supported releases.

Per build farm animal margay.  This isn't the end of the story, though,
it just changes random crashes into random "File exists" errors; more
work needed for a green build farm.

Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKqKrCV5xKWfh9rnm%3Do%3DDwZLTLtnsj_XpUi9g5%3DV%2B9oyg%40mail.gmail.com
2022-07-01 14:17:54 +12:00
Heikki Linnakangas adf6d5dfb2 Fix visibility check when XID is committed in CLOG but not in procarray.
TransactionIdIsInProgress had a fast path to return 'false' if the
single-item CLOG cache said that the transaction was known to be
committed. However, that was wrong, because a transaction is first
marked as committed in the CLOG but doesn't become visible to others
until it has removed its XID from the proc array. That could lead to an
error:

    ERROR:  t_xmin is uncommitted in tuple to be updated

or for an UPDATE to go ahead without blocking, before the previous
UPDATE on the same row was made visible.

The window is usually very short, but synchronous replication makes it
much wider, because the wait for synchronous replica happens in that
window.

Another thing that makes it hard to hit is that it's hard to get such
a commit-in-progress transaction into the single item CLOG cache.
Normally, if you call TransactionIdIsInProgress on such a transaction,
it determines that the XID is in progress without checking the CLOG
and without populating the cache. One way to prime the cache is to
explicitly call pg_xact_status() on the XID. Another way is to use a
lot of subtransactions, so that the subxid cache in the proc array is
overflown, making TransactionIdIsInProgress rely on pg_subtrans and
CLOG checks.

This has been broken ever since it was introduced in 2008, but the race
condition is very hard to hit, especially without synchronous
replication. There were a couple of reports of the error starting from
summer 2021, but no one was able to find the root cause then.

TransactionIdIsKnownCompleted() is now unused. In 'master', remove it,
but I left it in place in backbranches in case it's used by extensions.

Also change pg_xact_status() to check TransactionIdIsInProgress().
Previously, it only checked the CLOG, and returned "committed" before
the transaction was actually made visible to other queries. Note that
this also means that you cannot use pg_xact_status() to reproduce the
bug anymore, even if the code wasn't fixed.

Report and analysis by Konstantin Knizhnik. Patch by Simon Riggs, with
the pg_xact_status() change added by me.

Author: Simon Riggs
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/4da7913d-398c-e2ad-d777-f752cf7f0bbb%40garret.ru
2022-06-27 08:21:08 +03:00
Thomas Munro 3ab4fc5dcf Don't trust signalfd() on illumos.
Since commit 6a2a70a02, we've used signalfd() to receive latch wakeups
when building with WAIT_USE_EPOLL (default for Linux and illumos), and
our traditional self-pipe when falling back to WAIT_USE_POLL (default
for other Unixes with neither epoll() nor kqueue()).

Unexplained hangs and kernel panics have been reported on illumos
systems, apparently linked to this use of signalfd(), leading illumos
users and build farm members to have to define WAIT_USE_POLL explicitly
as a work-around.  A bug report exists at
https://www.illumos.org/issues/13700 but no fix is available yet.

Let's provide a way for illumos users to go back to self-pipes with
epoll(), like releases before 14, and choose that by default.  No change
for Linux users.  To help with development/debugging, macros
WAIT_USE_{EPOLL,POLL} and WAIT_USE_{SIGNALFD,SELF_PIPE} can be defined
explicitly to override the defaults.

Back-patch to 14, where we started using signalfd().

Reported-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>
Reported-by: Olaf Bohlen <olbohlen@eenfach.de> (off-list)
Reviewed-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/MEYP282MB1669C8D88F0997354C2313C1B6CA9%40MEYP282MB1669.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2022-06-26 10:55:21 +12:00
Tom Lane 7ab5b4eb48 Be more careful about GucSource for internally-driven GUC settings.
The original advice for hard-wired SetConfigOption calls was to use
PGC_S_OVERRIDE, particularly for PGC_INTERNAL GUCs.  However,
that's really overkill for PGC_INTERNAL GUCs, since there is no
possibility that we need to override a user-provided setting.
Instead use PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT in most places, so that the
value will appear with source = 'default' in pg_settings and thereby
not be shown by psql's new \dconfig command.  The one exception is
that when changing in_hot_standby in a hot-standby session, we still
use PGC_S_OVERRIDE, because people felt that seeing that in \dconfig
would be a good thing.

Similarly use PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT for the auto-tune value of
wal_buffers (if possible, that is if wal_buffers wasn't explicitly
set to -1), and for the typical 2MB value of max_stack_depth.

In combination these changes remove four not-very-interesting
entries from the typical output of \dconfig, all of which people
fingered as "why is that showing up?" in the discussion thread.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3118455.1649267333@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-06-08 13:26:18 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera e28bb88519
Revert changes to CONCURRENTLY that "sped up" Xmin advance
This reverts commit d9d076222f "VACUUM: ignore indexing operations
with CONCURRENTLY".

These changes caused indexes created with the CONCURRENTLY option to
miss heap tuples that were HOT-updated and HOT-pruned during the index
creation.  Before these changes, HOT pruning would have been prevented
by the Xmin of the transaction creating the index, but because this
change was precisely to allow the Xmin to move forward ignoring that
backend, now other backends scanning the table can prune them.  This is
not a problem for VACUUM (which requires a lock that conflicts with a
CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY operation), but HOT-prune can definitely
occur.  In other words, Xmin advancement was sped up, but at the cost of
corrupting the resulting index.

Regrettably, this means that the new feature in PG14 that RIC/CIC on
very large tables no longer force VACUUM to retain very old tuples goes
away.  We might try to implement it again in a later release, but for
now the risk of indexes missing tuples is too high and there's no easy
fix.

Backpatch to 14, where this change appeared.

Reported-by: Peter Slavov <pet.slavov@gmail.com>
Diagnosys-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Diagnosys-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Diagnosys-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17485-396609c6925b982d%40postgresql.org
2022-05-31 21:24:59 +02:00
Robert Haas f5bfba5413 shm_mq_sendv: Fix flushing bug when receiver not yet attached.
With the old logic, when the reciever had not yet attached, we would
never call shm_mq_inc_bytes_written(), even if force_flush = true
was specified. That could result in a situation where data that the
sender believes it has sent is never received.

Along the way, remove a useless function prototype for a nonexistent
function from shm_mq.h.

Commit 46846433a0 introduced these
problems.

Pavan Deolasee, with a few changes by me.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABOikdPkwtLLCTnzzmpSMXo3QZa2yXq0J7Q61ssdLFAJYrOVvQ@mail.gmail.com
2022-05-31 08:46:54 -04:00
Thomas Munro 12e28aac8e Add debugging help in OwnLatch().
Build farm animal gharial recently failed a few times in a parallel
worker's call to OwnLatch() with "ERROR:  latch already owned".  Let's
turn that into a PANIC and show the PID of the owner, to try to learn
more.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ_0RGcr7oUNzcHdn7zHqHSB_wLSd3JyS2YC_DYB%2B-V%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com
2022-05-31 12:06:11 +12:00
Alvaro Herrera 8d061acd12
Repurpose PROC_COPYABLE_FLAGS as PROC_XMIN_FLAGS
This is a slight, convenient semantics change from what commit
0f0cfb4940 ("Fix parallel operations that prevent oldest xmin from
advancing") introduced that lets us simplify the coding in the one place
where it is used.

Backpatch to 13.  This is related to commit 6fea65508a ("Tighten
ComputeXidHorizons' handling of walsenders") rewriting the code site
where this is used, which has not yet been backpatched, but it may well
be in the future.

Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202204191637.eldwa2exvguw@alvherre.pgsql
2022-05-19 16:20:32 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera c4f113e8fe
Clean up newlines following left parentheses
Like commit c9d2977519.
2022-05-13 23:52:35 +02:00
Robert Haas 4f2400cb3f Add a new shmem_request_hook hook.
Currently, preloaded libraries are expected to request additional
shared memory and LWLocks in _PG_init().  However, it is not unusal
for such requests to depend on MaxBackends, which won't be
initialized at that time.  Such requests could also depend on GUCs
that other modules might change.  This introduces a new hook where
modules can safely use MaxBackends and GUCs to request additional
shared memory and LWLocks.

Furthermore, this change restricts requests for shared memory and
LWLocks to this hook.  Previously, libraries could make requests
until the size of the main shared memory segment was calculated.
Unlike before, we no longer silently ignore requests received at
invalid times.  Instead, we FATAL if someone tries to request
additional shared memory or LWLocks outside of the hook.

Nathan Bossart and Julien Rouhaud

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220412210112.GA2065815%40nathanxps13
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Yn2jE/lmDhKtkUdr@paquier.xyz
2022-05-13 09:31:06 -04:00
Tom Lane 23e7b38bfe Pre-beta mechanical code beautification.
Run pgindent, pgperltidy, and reformat-dat-files.
I manually fixed a couple of comments that pgindent uglified.
2022-05-12 15:17:30 -04:00
Thomas Munro 0d3431497d Add logging for excessive ProcSignalBarrier waits.
To enable diagnosis of systems that are not processing ProcSignalBarrier
requests promptly, add a LOG message every 5 seconds if we seem to be
wedged.  Although you could already see this state as a wait event in
pg_stat_activity, the log message also shows the PID of the process that
is preventing progress.

Also add DEBUG1 logging around the whole wait loop.

Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BTgmoYJ03r5359gQutRGP9BtigYCg3_UskcmnVjBf-QO3-0pQ%40mail.gmail.com
2022-05-11 18:03:03 +12:00
Thomas Munro b74e94dc27 Rethink PROCSIGNAL_BARRIER_SMGRRELEASE.
With sufficiently bad luck, it was possible for IssuePendingWritebacks()
to reopen a file after we'd processed PROCSIGNAL_BARRIER_SMGRRELEASE and
before the file was unlinked by some other backend.  That left a small
hole in commit 4eb21763's plan to fix all spurious errors from DROP
TABLESPACE and similar on Windows.

Fix by closing md.c's segments, instead of just closing fd.c's
descriptors, and then teaching smgrwriteback() not to open files that
aren't already open.

Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220209220004.kb3dgtn2x2k2gtdm%40alap3.anarazel.de
2022-05-07 16:32:10 +12:00
Andres Freund 8f1537d10e Fix possibility of self-deadlock in ResolveRecoveryConflictWithBufferPin().
The tests added in 9f8a050f68 failed nearly reliably on FreeBSD in CI, and
occasionally on the buildfarm. That turns out to be caused not by a bug in the
test, but by a longstanding bug in recovery conflict handling.

The standby timeout handler, used by ResolveRecoveryConflictWithBufferPin(),
executed SendRecoveryConflictWithBufferPin() inside a signal handler. A bad
idea, because the deadlock timeout handler (or a spurious latch set) could
have interrupted ProcWaitForSignal(). If unlucky that could cause a
self-deadlock on ProcArrayLock, if the deadlock check is in
SendRecoveryConflictWithBufferPin()->CancelDBBackends().

To fix, set a flag in StandbyTimeoutHandler(), and check the flag in
ResolveRecoveryConflictWithBufferPin().

Subsequently the recovery conflict tests will be backpatched.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220413002626.udl7lll7f3o7nre7@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 10-
2022-05-02 18:25:00 -07:00
Etsuro Fujita d89f97e83e Fix typo in comment. 2022-05-02 16:45:00 +09:00
Michael Paquier 55b5686511 Revert recent changes with durable_rename_excl()
This reverts commits 2c902bb and ccfbd92.  Per buildfarm members
kestrel, rorqual and calliphoridae, the assertions checking that a TLI
history file should not exist when created by a WAL receiver have been
failing, and switching to durable_rename() over durable_rename_excl()
would cause the newest TLI history file to overwrite the existing one.
We need to think harder about such cases, so revert the new logic for
now.

Note that all the failures have been reported in the test
025_stuck_on_old_timeline.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/511362.1651116498@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-04-28 13:08:16 +09:00
Michael Paquier 2c902bbf19 Remove durable_rename_excl()
ccfbd92 has replaced all existing in-core callers of this function in
favor of durable_rename().  durable_rename_excl() is by nature unsafe on
crashes happening at the wrong time, so just remove it.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220407182954.GA1231544@nathanxps13
2022-04-28 11:10:40 +09:00
Tom Lane 6fea65508a Tighten ComputeXidHorizons' handling of walsenders.
ComputeXidHorizons (nee GetOldestXmin) thought that it could identify
walsenders by checking for proc->databaseId == 0.  Perhaps that was
safe when the code was written, but it's been wrong at least since
autovacuum was invented.  Background processes that aren't connected
to any particular database, such as the autovacuum launcher and
logical replication launcher, look like that too.

This imprecision is harmful because when such a process advertises an
xmin, the result is to hold back dead-tuple cleanup in all databases,
though it'd be sufficient to hold it back in shared catalogs (which
are the only relations such a process can access).  Aside from being
generally inefficient, this has recently been seen to cause regression
test failures in the buildfarm, as a consequence of the logical
replication launcher's startup transaction preventing VACUUM from
marking pages of a user table as all-visible.

We only want that global hold-back effect for the case where a
walsender is advertising a hot standby feedback xmin.  Therefore,
invent a new PGPROC flag that says that a process' xmin should be
considered globally, and check that instead of using the incorrect
databaseId == 0 test.  Currently only a walsender sets that flag,
and only if it is not connected to any particular database.  (This is
for bug-compatibility with the undocumented behavior of the existing
code, namely that feedback sent by a client who has connected to a
particular database would not be applied globally.  I'm not sure this
is a great definition; however, such a client is capable of issuing
plain SQL commands, and I don't think we want xmins advertised for
such commands to be applied globally.  Perhaps this could do with
refinement later.)

While at it, I rewrote the comment in ComputeXidHorizons, and
re-ordered the commented-upon if-tests, to make them match up
for intelligibility's sake.

This is arguably a back-patchable bug fix, but given the lack of
complaints I think it prudent to let it age awhile in HEAD first.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1346227.1649887693@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-04-15 17:50:05 -04:00
David Rowley a00fd066b1 Add missing spaces after single-line comments
Only 1 of 3 of these changes appear to be handled by pgindent. That change
is new to v15.  The remaining two appear to be left alone by pgindent. The
exact reason for that is not 100% clear to me.  It seems related to the
fact that it's a line that contains *only* a single line comment and no
actual code.  It does not seem worth investigating this in too much
detail.  In any case, these do not conform to our usual practices, so fix
them.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220411020336.GB26620@telsasoft.com
2022-04-14 09:28:56 +12:00
Alvaro Herrera 24d2b2680a
Remove extraneous blank lines before block-closing braces
These are useless and distracting.  We wouldn't have written the code
with them to begin with, so there's no reason to keep them.

Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220411020336.GB26620@telsasoft.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/attachment/133167/0016-Extraneous-blank-lines.patch
2022-04-13 19:16:02 +02:00
Robert Haas 7fc0e7de9f Revert the addition of GetMaxBackends() and related stuff.
This reverts commits 0147fc7, 4567596, aa64f23, and 5ecd018.
There is no longer agreement that introducing this function
was the right way to address the problem. The consensus now
seems to favor trying to make a correct value for MaxBackends
available to mdules executing their _PG_init() functions.

Nathan Bossart

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20220323045229.i23skfscdbvrsuxa@jrouhaud
2022-04-12 14:45:23 -04:00
David Rowley b0e5f02ddc Fix various typos and spelling mistakes in code comments
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220411020336.GB26620@telsasoft.com
2022-04-11 20:49:41 +12:00
Robert Haas f37015a161 Rename delayChkpt to delayChkptFlags.
Before commit 412ad7a556, delayChkpt
was a Boolean. Now it's an integer. Extensions using it need to be
appropriately updated, so let's rename the field to make sure that
a hard compilation failure occurs.

Replacing delayChkpt with delayChkptFlags made a few comments extend
past 80 characters, so I reflowed them and changed some wording very
slightly.

The back-branches will need a different change to restore compatibility
with existing minor releases; this is just for master.

Per suggestion from Tom Lane.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/a7880f4d-1d74-582a-ada7-dad168d046d1@enterprisedb.com
2022-04-08 11:44:17 -04:00
Michael Paquier efb0ef909f Track I/O timing for temporary file blocks in EXPLAIN (BUFFERS)
Previously, the output of EXPLAIN (BUFFERS) option showed only the I/O
timing spent reading and writing shared and local buffers.  This commit
adds on top of that the I/O timing for temporary buffers in the output
of EXPLAIN (for spilled external sorts, hashes, materialization. etc).
This can be helpful for users in cases where the I/O related to
temporary buffers is the bottleneck.

Like its cousin, this information is available only when track_io_timing
is enabled.  Playing the patch, this is showing an extra overhead of up
to 1% even when using gettimeofday() as implementation for interval
timings, which is slightly within the usual range noise still that's
measurable.

Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Georgios Kokolatos, Melanie Plageman, Julien Rouhaud,
Ranier Vilela
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAJgotTeP83p6HiAGDhs_9Fw9pZ2J=_tYTsiO5Ob-V5GQ@mail.gmail.com
2022-04-08 11:27:21 +09:00
Peter Geoghegan 10a8d13823 Truncate line pointer array during heap pruning.
Reclaim space from the line pointer array when heap pruning leaves
behind a contiguous group of LP_UNUSED items at the end of the array.
This happens during subsequent page defragmentation.  Certain kinds of
heap line pointer bloat are ameliorated by this new optimization.

Follow-up work to commit 3c3b8a4b26, which taught VACUUM to truncate the
line pointer array in about the same way during VACUUM's second pass
over the heap.  We now apply line pointer array truncation during both
the first and the second pass over the heap made by VACUUM.  We can also
perform line pointer array truncation during opportunistic pruning.

Matthias van de Meent, with small tweaks by me.

Author: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2WjgaQc55Y5f5CQd3L=eS5CZcff2Obxp=O6pto8-f0hC4w@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2Wg36%2B4at2eWJNcYNiW2FJmht34x3YeX54ctUSs7kKoNcA%40mail.gmail.com
2022-04-07 15:42:12 -07:00
Thomas Munro 5dc0418fab Prefetch data referenced by the WAL, take II.
Introduce a new GUC recovery_prefetch.  When enabled, look ahead in the
WAL and try to initiate asynchronous reading of referenced data blocks
that are not yet cached in our buffer pool.  For now, this is done with
posix_fadvise(), which has several caveats.  Since not all OSes have
that system call, "try" is provided so that it can be enabled where
available.  Better mechanisms for asynchronous I/O are possible in later
work.

Set to "try" for now for test coverage.  Default setting to be finalized
before release.

The GUC wal_decode_buffer_size limits the distance we can look ahead in
bytes of decoded data.

The existing GUC maintenance_io_concurrency is used to limit the number
of concurrent I/Os allowed, based on pessimistic heuristics used to
infer that I/Os have begun and completed.  We'll also not look more than
maintenance_io_concurrency * 4 block references ahead.

Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> (earlier version)
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier version)
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> (earlier version)
Tested-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> (earlier version)
Tested-by: Jakub Wartak <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com> (earlier version)
Tested-by: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> (earlier version)
Tested-by: Sait Talha Nisanci <Sait.Nisanci@microsoft.com> (earlier version)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ4VJN8ttxScUFM8dOKX0BrBiboo5uz1cq%3DAovOddfHpA%40mail.gmail.com
2022-04-07 19:42:14 +12:00
Andres Freund 5891c7a8ed pgstat: store statistics in shared memory.
Previously the statistics collector received statistics updates via UDP and
shared statistics data by writing them out to temporary files regularly. These
files can reach tens of megabytes and are written out up to twice a
second. This has repeatedly prevented us from adding additional useful
statistics.

Now statistics are stored in shared memory. Statistics for variable-numbered
objects are stored in a dshash hashtable (backed by dynamic shared
memory). Fixed-numbered stats are stored in plain shared memory.

The header for pgstat.c contains an overview of the architecture.

The stats collector is not needed anymore, remove it.

By utilizing the transactional statistics drop infrastructure introduced in a
prior commit statistics entries cannot "leak" anymore. Previously leaked
statistics were dropped by pgstat_vacuum_stat(), called from [auto-]vacuum. On
systems with many small relations pgstat_vacuum_stat() could be quite
expensive.

Now that replicas drop statistics entries for dropped objects, it is not
necessary anymore to reset stats when starting from a cleanly shut down
replica.

Subsequent commits will perform some further code cleanup, adapt docs and add
tests.

Bumps PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID.

Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-By: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> (in a much earlier version)
Reviewed-By: Arthur Zakirov <a.zakirov@postgrespro.ru> (in a much earlier version)
Reviewed-By: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> (in a much earlier version)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220303021600.hs34ghqcw6zcokdh@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220308205351.2xcn6k4x5yivcxyd@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210319235115.y3wz7hpnnrshdyv6@alap3.anarazel.de
2022-04-06 21:29:46 -07:00
Andres Freund 8b1dccd37c pgstat: scaffolding for transactional stats creation / drop.
One problematic part of the current statistics collector design is that there
is no reliable way of getting rid of statistics entries. Because of that
pgstat_vacuum_stat() (called by [auto-]vacuum) matches all stats for the
current database with the catalog contents and tries to drop now-superfluous
entries. That's quite expensive. What's worse, it doesn't work on physical
replicas, despite physical replicas collection statistics entries.

This commit introduces infrastructure to create / drop statistics entries
transactionally, together with the underlying catalog objects (functions,
relations, subscriptions). pgstat_xact.c maintains a list of stats entries
created / dropped transactionally in the current transaction. To ensure the
removal of statistics entries is durable dropped statistics entries are
included in commit / abort (and prepare) records, which also ensures that
stats entries are dropped on standbys.

Statistics entries created separately from creating the underlying catalog
object (e.g. when stats were previously lost due to an immediate restart)
are *not* WAL logged. However that can only happen outside of the transaction
creating the catalog object, so it does not lead to "leaked" statistics
entries.

For this to work, functions creating / dropping functions / relations /
subscriptions need to call into pgstat. For subscriptions this was already
done when dropping subscriptions, via pgstat_report_subscription_drop() (now
renamed to pgstat_drop_subscription()).

This commit does not actually drop stats yet, it just provides the
infrastructure. It is however a largely independent piece of infrastructure,
so committing it separately makes sense.

Bumps XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220303021600.hs34ghqcw6zcokdh@alap3.anarazel.de
2022-04-06 18:27:52 -07:00
Andres Freund 46a2d2499a dsm: allow use in single user mode.
It might seem pointless to allow use of dsm in single user mode, but otherwise
subsystems might need dedicated single user mode code paths.

Besides changing the assert, all that's needed is to make some windows code
assuming the presence of postmaster conditional.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGL9hY_VY=+oUK+Gc1iSRx-Ls5qeYJ6q=dQVZnT3R63Taw@mail.gmail.com
2022-04-06 12:40:04 -07:00
Robert Haas 9c08aea6a3 Add new block-by-block strategy for CREATE DATABASE.
Because this strategy logs changes on a block-by-block basis, it
avoids the need to checkpoint before and after the operation.
However, because it logs each changed block individually, it might
generate a lot of extra write-ahead logging if the template database
is large. Therefore, the older strategy remains available via a new
STRATEGY parameter to CREATE DATABASE, and a corresponding --strategy
option to createdb.

Somewhat controversially, this patch assembles the list of relations
to be copied to the new database by reading the pg_class relation of
the template database. Cross-database access like this isn't normally
possible, but it can be made to work here because there can't be any
connections to the database being copied, nor can it contain any
in-doubt transactions. Even so, we have to use lower-level interfaces
than normal, since the table scan and relcache interfaces will not
work for a database to which we're not connected. The advantage of
this approach is that we do not need to rely on the filesystem to
determine what ought to be copied, but instead on PostgreSQL's own
knowledge of the database structure. This avoids, for example,
copying stray files that happen to be located in the source database
directory.

Dilip Kumar, with a fairly large number of cosmetic changes by me.
Reviewed and tested by Ashutosh Sharma, Andres Freund, John Naylor,
Greg Nancarrow, Neha Sharma. Additional feedback from Bruce Momjian,
Heikki Linnakangas, Julien Rouhaud, Adam Brusselback, Kyotaro
Horiguchi, Tomas Vondra, Andrew Dunstan, Álvaro Herrera, and others.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYtcdxBjLh31DLxUXHxFVMPGzrU5_T=CYCvRyFHywSBUQ@mail.gmail.com
2022-03-29 11:48:36 -04:00
Robert Haas edea649afb Explain why the startup process can't cause a shortage of sinval slots.
Bharath Rupireddy, reviewed by Fujii Masao and Yura Sokolov.
Lightly edited by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACU=3_frMkDp9UUeuZoAMjaK1y0Z_q5RFNbGvwi8NM==AA@mail.gmail.com
2022-03-29 09:24:24 -04:00
Michael Paquier ad8759bea0 Fix typos in standby.c
xl_running_xacts exists, not xl_xact_running_xacts.

Author: Hou Zhijie
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB57160D8B01097FFB5C175065941A9@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2022-03-25 14:11:18 +09:00
Robert Haas 412ad7a556 Fix possible recovery trouble if TRUNCATE overlaps a checkpoint.
If TRUNCATE causes some buffers to be invalidated and thus the
checkpoint does not flush them, TRUNCATE must also ensure that the
corresponding files are truncated on disk. Otherwise, a replay
from the checkpoint might find that the buffers exist but have
the wrong contents, which may cause replay to fail.

Report by Teja Mupparti. Patch by Kyotaro Horiguchi, per a design
suggestion from Heikki Linnakangas, with some changes to the
comments by me. Review of this and a prior patch that approached
the issue differently by Heikki Linnakangas, Andres Freund, Álvaro
Herrera, Masahiko Sawada, and Tom Lane.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/BYAPR06MB6373BF50B469CA393C614257ABF00@BYAPR06MB6373.namprd06.prod.outlook.com
2022-03-24 14:52:28 -04:00
Thomas Munro 46d9bfb0a6 Fix race between DROP TABLESPACE and checkpointing.
Commands like ALTER TABLE SET TABLESPACE may leave files for the next
checkpoint to clean up.  If such files are not removed by the time DROP
TABLESPACE is called, we request a checkpoint so that they are deleted.
However, there is presently a window before checkpoint start where new
unlink requests won't be scheduled until the following checkpoint.  This
means that the checkpoint forced by DROP TABLESPACE might not remove the
files we expect it to remove, and the following ERROR will be emitted:

	ERROR:  tablespace "mytblspc" is not empty

To fix, add a call to AbsorbSyncRequests() just before advancing the
unlink cycle counter.  This ensures that any unlink requests forwarded
prior to checkpoint start (i.e., when ckpt_started is incremented) will
be processed by the current checkpoint.  Since AbsorbSyncRequests()
performs memory allocations, it cannot be called within a critical
section, so we also need to move SyncPreCheckpoint() to before
CreateCheckPoint()'s critical section.

This is an old bug, so back-patch to all supported versions.

Author: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220215235845.GA2665318%40nathanxps13
2022-03-16 17:20:24 +13:00
Thomas Munro 3390ef1b7b Fix waiting in RegisterSyncRequest().
If we run out of space in the checkpointer sync request queue (which is
hopefully rare on real systems, but common with very small buffer pool),
we wait for it to drain.  While waiting, we should report that as a wait
event so that users know what is going on, and also handle postmaster
death, since otherwise the loop might never terminate if the
checkpointer has exited.

Back-patch to 12.  Although the problem exists in earlier releases too,
the code is structured differently before 12 so I haven't gone any
further for now, in the absence of field complaints.

Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220226213942.nb7uvb2pamyu26dj%40alap3.anarazel.de
2022-03-16 15:35:16 +13:00
Michael Paquier 9e98583898 Create routine able to set single-call SRFs for Materialize mode
Set-returning functions that use the Materialize mode, creating a
tuplestore to include all the tuples returned in a set rather than doing
so in multiple calls, use roughly the same set of steps to prepare
ReturnSetInfo for this job:
- Check if ReturnSetInfo supports returning a tuplestore and if the
materialize mode is enabled.
- Create a tuplestore for all the tuples part of the returned set in the
per-query memory context, stored in ReturnSetInfo->setResult.
- Build a tuple descriptor mostly from get_call_result_type(), then
stored in ReturnSetInfo->setDesc.  Note that there are some cases where
the SRF's tuple descriptor has to be the one specified by the function
caller.

This refactoring is done so as there are (well, should be) no behavior
changes in any of the in-core functions refactored, and the centralized
function that checks and sets up the function's ReturnSetInfo can be
controlled with a set of bits32 options.  Two of them prove to be
necessary now:
- SRF_SINGLE_USE_EXPECTED to use expectedDesc as tuple descriptor, as
expected by the function's caller.
- SRF_SINGLE_BLESS to validate the tuple descriptor for the SRF.

The same initialization pattern is simplified in 28 places per my
count as of src/backend/, shaving up to ~900 lines of code.  These
mostly come from the removal of the per-query initializations and the
sanity checks now grouped in a single location.  There are more
locations that could be simplified in contrib/, that are left for a
follow-up cleanup.

fcc2817, 07daca5 and d61a361 have prepared the areas of the code related
to this change, to ease this refactoring.

Author: Melanie Plageman, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_azyd1Z3W_r7Ou4sorTjRCs+PxeHw1CWJeXKofkE6TuZg@mail.gmail.com
2022-03-07 10:26:29 +09:00
Tom Lane 46ab07ffda Clean up assorted failures under clang's -fsanitize=undefined checks.
Most of these are cases where we could call memcpy() or other libc
functions with a NULL pointer and a zero count, which is forbidden
by POSIX even though every production version of libc allows it.
We've fixed such things before in a piecemeal way, but apparently
never made an effort to try to get them all.  I don't claim that
this patch does so either, but it gets every failure I observe in
check-world, using clang 12.0.1 on current RHEL8.

numeric.c has a different issue that the sanitizer doesn't like:
"ln(-1.0)" will compute log10(0) and then try to assign the
resulting -Inf to an integer variable.  We don't actually use the
result in such a case, so there's no live bug.

Back-patch to all supported branches, with the idea that we might
start running a buildfarm member that tests this case.  This includes
back-patching c1132aae3 (Check the size in COPY_POINTER_FIELD),
which previously silenced some of these issues in copyfuncs.c.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALNJ-vT9r0DSsAOw9OXVJFxLENoVS_68kJ5x0p44atoYH+H4dg@mail.gmail.com
2022-03-03 18:13:24 -05:00
Andres Freund fe0972ee5e Add further debug info to help debug 019_replslot_limit.pl failures.
See also afdeff1052. Failures after that commit provided a few more hints,
but not yet enough to understand what's going on.

In 019_replslot_limit.pl shut down nodes with fast instead of immediate mode
if we observe the failure mode. That should tell us whether the failures we're
observing are just a timing issue under high load. PGCTLTIMEOUT should prevent
buildfarm animals from hanging endlessly.

Also adds a bit more logging to replication slot drop and ShutdownPostgres().

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220225192941.hqnvefgdzaro6gzg@alap3.anarazel.de
2022-02-25 17:04:39 -08:00
Michael Paquier d61a361d1a Remove all traces of tuplestore_donestoring() in the C code
This routine is a no-op since dd04e95 from 2003, with a macro kept
around for compatibility purposes.  This has led to the same code
patterns being copy-pasted around for no effect, sometimes in confusing
ways like in pg_logical_slot_get_changes_guts() from logical.c where the
code was actually incorrect.

This issue has been discussed on two different threads recently, so
rather than living with this legacy, remove any uses of this routine in
the C code to simplify things.  The compatibility macro is kept to avoid
breaking any out-of-core modules that depend on it.

Reported-by: Tatsuhito Kasahara, Justin Pryzby
Author: Tatsuhito Kasahara
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211217200419.GQ17618@telsasoft.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP0=ZVJeeYfAeRfmzqAF2Lumdiv4S4FewyBnZd4DPTrsSQKJKw@mail.gmail.com
2022-02-17 09:52:02 +09:00
Heikki Linnakangas 70e81861fa Split xlog.c into xlog.c and xlogrecovery.c.
This moves the functions related to performing WAL recovery into the new
xlogrecovery.c source file, leaving xlog.c responsible for maintaining
the WAL buffers, coordinating the startup and switch from recovery to
normal operations, and other miscellaneous stuff that have always been in
xlog.c.

Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Robert Haas
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/a31f27b4-a31d-f976-6217-2b03be646ffa%40iki.fi
2022-02-16 09:30:38 +02:00
Andres Freund 2f6501fa3c Move replication slot release to before_shmem_exit().
Previously, replication slots were released in ProcKill() on error, resulting
in reporting replication slot drop of ephemeral slots after the stats
subsystem was already shut down.

To fix this problem, move replication slot release to a before_shmem_exit()
hook that is called before the stats collector shuts down. There wasn't really
a good reason for the slot handling to be in ProcKill() anyway.

Patch by Masahiko Sawada, with very minor polishing by me.

I, Andres, wrote a test for dropping slots during process exit, but there may
be some OS dependent issues around the number of times FATAL error messages
are displayed due to a still debated libpq issue. So that test will be
committed separately / later.

Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDAeEpAbZEyYJsPZJUmSPaRicVSBObaL7sPaofnKz+9zg@mail.gmail.com
2022-02-14 17:08:17 -08:00
Thomas Munro 50e570a59e Add WL_SOCKET_CLOSED for socket shutdown events.
Provide a way for WaitEventSet to report that the remote peer has shut
down its socket, independently of whether there is any buffered data
remaining to be read.  This works only on systems where the kernel
exposes that information, namely:

* WAIT_USE_POLL builds using POLLRDHUP, if available
* WAIT_USE_EPOLL builds using EPOLLRDHUP
* WAIT_USE_KQUEUE builds using EV_EOF

Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>
Reviewed-by: Maksim Milyutin <milyutinma@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/77def86b27e41f0efcba411460e929ae%40postgrespro.ru
2022-02-14 16:52:23 +13:00
Thomas Munro 4eb2176318 Fix DROP {DATABASE,TABLESPACE} on Windows.
Previously, it was possible for DROP DATABASE, DROP TABLESPACE and ALTER
DATABASE SET TABLESPACE to fail because other backends still had file
handles open for dropped tables.  Windows won't allow a directory
containing unlinked-but-still-open files to be unlinked.  Tackle this
problem by forcing all backends to close all smgr fds.  No change for
Unix systems, which don't suffer from the problem, but the new code path
can be tested by Unix-based developers by defining
USE_BARRIER_SMGRRELEASE explicitly.

It's possible that PROCSIGNAL_BARRIER_SMGRRELEASE will have more
bug-fixing applications soon (under discussion).  Note that this is the
first user of the ProcSignalBarrier mechanism from commit 16a4e4aec.  It
could in principle be back-patched as far as 14, but since field
complaints are rare and ProcSignalBarrier hasn't been battle-tested,
that seems like a bad idea.  Fix in master only, where these failures
have started to show up in automated testing due to new tests.

Suggested-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGLdemy2gBm80kz20GTe6hNVwoErE8KwcJk6-U56oStjtg@mail.gmail.com
2022-02-12 10:21:23 +13:00
Michael Paquier 4567596316 Reduce more the number of calls to GetMaxBackends()
Some of the code paths changed by aa64f23 can reduce the number of times
GetMaxBackends() is called.  The performance gain is marginal, but most
of the code changed by this commit already did that.  Hence, let's be
clean and apply the same rule everywhere, for consistency.

Some of the code paths, like in deadlock.c, involve only assertions.
These are left unchanged.

Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YgMpGZhPOjNfS7er@paquier.xyz
2022-02-10 10:27:29 +09:00
Tom Lane c5f5b4dd4b Test honestly for <sys/signalfd.h>.
Commit 6a2a70a02 supposed that any platform having <sys/epoll.h>
would also have <sys/signalfd.h>.  It turns out there are still a
few people using platforms where that's not so, so we'd better make
a separate configure probe for it.  But since it took this long to
notice, I'm content with the decision to not have a separate code
path for epoll-only machines; we'll just fall back to using poll()
for these stragglers.

Per gripe from Gabriela Serventi.  Back-patch to v14 where this
code came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHOHWE-JjJDfcYuLAAEO7Jk07atFAU47z8TzHzg71gbC0aMy=g@mail.gmail.com
2022-02-09 14:24:54 -05:00
Robert Haas aa64f23b02 Remove MaxBackends variable in favor of GetMaxBackends() function.
Previously, it was really easy to write code that accessed MaxBackends
before we'd actually initialized it, especially when coding up an
extension. To make this less error-prune, introduce a new function
GetMaxBackends() which should be used to obtain the correct value.
This will ERROR if called too early. Demote the global variable to
a file-level static, so that nobody can peak at it directly.

Nathan Bossart. Idea by Andres Freund. Review by Greg Sabino Mullane,
by Michael Paquier (who had doubts about the approach), and by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20210802224204.bckcikl45uezv5e4@alap3.anarazel.de
2022-02-08 15:53:19 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera b3d7d6e462
Remove xloginsert.h from xlog.h
xlog.h is directly and indirectly #included in a lot of places.  With
this change, xloginsert.h is no longer unnecessarily included in the
large number of them that don't need it.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVe-W+WM5P44N7eG9C2_FmaeM8Dq5aCnD3fHt0Ba=WR6w@mail.gmail.com
2022-01-30 12:25:24 -03:00
Tomas Vondra f192e1bdf3 Fix ordering of XIDs in ProcArrayApplyRecoveryInfo
Commit 8431e296ea reworked ProcArrayApplyRecoveryInfo to sort XIDs
before adding them to KnownAssignedXids. But the XIDs are sorted using
xidComparator, which compares the XIDs simply as uint32 values, not
logically. KnownAssignedXidsAdd() however expects XIDs in logical order,
and calls TransactionIdFollowsOrEquals() to enforce that. If there are
XIDs for which the two orderings disagree, an error is raised and the
recovery fails/restarts.

Hitting this issue is fairly easy - you just need two transactions, one
started before the 4B limit (e.g. XID 4294967290), the other sometime
after it (e.g. XID 1000). Logically (4294967290 <= 1000) but when
compared using xidComparator we try to add them in the opposite order.
Which makes KnownAssignedXidsAdd() fail with an error like this:

  ERROR: out-of-order XID insertion in KnownAssignedXids

This only happens during replica startup, while processing RUNNING_XACTS
records to build the snapshot. Once we reach STANDBY_SNAPSHOT_READY, we
skip these records. So this does not affect already running replicas,
but if you restart (or create) a replica while there are transactions
with XIDs for which the two orderings disagree, you may hit this.

Long-running transactions and frequent replica restarts increase the
likelihood of hitting this issue. Once the replica gets into this state,
it can't be started (even if the old transactions are terminated).

Fixed by sorting the XIDs logically - this is fine because we're dealing
with normal XIDs (because it's XIDs assigned to backends) and from the
same wraparound epoch (otherwise the backends could not be running at
the same time on the primary node). So there are no problems with the
triangle inequality, which is why xidComparator compares raw values.

Investigation and root cause analysis by Abhijit Menon-Sen. Patch by me.

This issue is present in all releases since 9.4, however releases up to
9.6 are EOL already so backpatch to 10 only.

Reviewed-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera
Backpatch-through: 10
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/36b8a501-5d73-277c-4972-f58a4dce088a%40enterprisedb.com
2022-01-27 20:13:55 +01:00
Michael Paquier 410aa248e5 Fix various typos, grammar and code style in comments and docs
This fixes a set of issues that have accumulated over the past months
(or years) in various code areas.  Most fixes are related to some recent
additions, as of the development of v15.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220124030001.GQ23027@telsasoft.com
2022-01-25 09:40:04 +09:00
Amit Kapila 4c004dd520 Consistently use the function name CreateCheckPoint in code and comments.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVZmKsvDjtd45+9oTcnjUJtC4LF2BYK8TpWT1f=NjJX3w@mail.gmail.com
2022-01-17 07:50:00 +05:30
John Naylor 7fa945b857 Improve warning message in pg_signal_backend()
Previously, invoking pg_terminate_backend() or pg_cancel_backend()
with the postmaster PID produced a "PID XXXX is not a PostgresSQL
server process" warning, which does not make sense. Change to
"backend process" to make the message more exact.

Nathan Bossart, based on an idea from Bharath Rupireddy with
input from Tom Lane and Euler Taveira

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CALj2ACW7Rr-R7mBcBQiXWPp=JV5chajjTdudLiF5YcpW-BmHhg@mail.gmail.com
2022-01-11 12:56:26 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 27b77ecf9f Update copyright for 2022
Backpatch-through: 10
2022-01-07 19:04:57 -05:00
Tom Lane ba2bc4a7ba Use MaxLockMode symbol in more places.
As long as we have this macro, it makes sense to use it in
the LockMethodData structures.

Julien Rouhaud

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220103064722.ewdv4evlez5m7mdn@jrouhaud
2022-01-03 12:24:44 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 962951be3c Fix typo in code comment
Reported-by: Kevin Zheng <1642644905@qq.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/17341-d913ddb626c5c08c%40postgresql.org
2021-12-22 07:52:18 +01:00
Thomas Munro a13db0e164 Change ProcSendSignal() to take pgprocno.
Instead of referring to target backends by pid, use pgprocno.  This
means that we don't have to scan the ProcArray and we can drop some
special case code for dealing with the startup process.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLYRyDaneEwz5Uya_OgFLMx5BgJfkQSD%3Dq9HmwsfRRb-w%40mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Soumyadeep Chakraborty <soumyadeep2007@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ashwin Agrawal <ashwinstar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
2021-12-16 15:56:03 +13:00
Peter Geoghegan bcf60585e6 Standardize cleanup lock terminology.
The term "super-exclusive lock" is a synonym for "buffer cleanup lock"
that first appeared in nbtree many years ago.  Standardize things by
consistently using the term cleanup lock.  This finishes work started by
commit 276db875.

There is no good reason to have two terms.  But there is a good reason
to only have one: to avoid confusion around why VACUUM acquires a full
cleanup lock (not just an ordinary exclusive lock) in index AMs, during
ambulkdelete calls.  This has nothing to do with protecting the physical
index data structure itself.  It is needed to implement a locking
protocol that ensures that TIDs pointing to the heap/table structure
cannot get marked for recycling by VACUUM before it is safe (which is
somewhat similar to how VACUUM uses cleanup locks during its first heap
pass).  Note that it isn't strictly necessary for index AMs to implement
this locking protocol -- several index AMs use an MVCC snapshot as their
sole interlock to prevent unsafe TID recycling.

In passing, update the nbtree README.  Cleanly separate discussion of
the aforementioned index vacuuming locking protocol from discussion of
the "drop leaf page pin" optimization added by commit 2ed5b87f.  We now
structure discussion of the latter by describing how individual index
scans may safely opt out of applying the standard locking protocol (and
so can avoid blocking progress by VACUUM).  Also document why the
optimization is not safe to apply during nbtree index-only scans.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzngHgQa92tz6NQihf4nxJwRzCV36yMJO_i8dS+2mgEVKw@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkHPgsBBvGWjz=8PjNhDefy7XRkDKiT5NxMs-n5ZCf2dA@mail.gmail.com
2021-12-08 17:24:45 -08:00
Peter Eisentraut 37b2764593 Some RELKIND macro refactoring
Add more macros to group some RELKIND_* macros:

- RELKIND_HAS_PARTITIONS()
- RELKIND_HAS_TABLESPACE()
- RELKIND_HAS_TABLE_AM()

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a574c8f1-9c84-93ad-a9e5-65233d6fc00f%40enterprisedb.com
2021-12-03 14:08:19 +01:00
Michael Paquier 98105e53e0 Fix typos
Author: Lingjie Qiang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSAPR01MB71654E773F62AC88DC1FC8CC80669@OSAPR01MB7165.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2021-11-30 11:05:15 +09:00
Tom Lane 3804539e48 Replace random(), pg_erand48(), etc with a better PRNG API and algorithm.
Standardize on xoroshiro128** as our basic PRNG algorithm, eliminating
a bunch of platform dependencies as well as fundamentally-obsolete PRNG
code.  In addition, this API replacement will ease replacing the
algorithm again in future, should that become necessary.

xoroshiro128** is a few percent slower than the drand48 family,
but it can produce full-width 64-bit random values not only 48-bit,
and it should be much more trustworthy.  It's likely to be noticeably
faster than the platform's random(), depending on which platform you
are thinking about; and we can have non-global state vectors easily,
unlike with random().  It is not cryptographically strong, but neither
are the functions it replaces.

Fabien Coelho, reviewed by Dean Rasheed, Aleksander Alekseev, and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2105241211230.165418@pseudo
2021-11-28 21:33:07 -05:00
Amit Kapila 0f0cfb4940 Fix parallel operations that prevent oldest xmin from advancing.
While determining xid horizons, we skip over backends that are running
Vacuum. We also ignore Create Index Concurrently, or Reindex Concurrently
for the purposes of computing Xmin for Vacuum. But we were not setting the
flags corresponding to these operations when they are performed in
parallel which was preventing Xid horizon from advancing.

The optimization related to skipping Create Index Concurrently, or Reindex
Concurrently operations was implemented in PG-14 but the fix is the same
for the Parallel Vacuum as well so back-patched till PG-13.

Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 13
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoCLQqgM1sXh9BrDFq0uzd3RBFKi=Vfo6cjjKODm0Onr5w@mail.gmail.com
2021-11-19 09:04:40 +05:30
Michael Paquier 4cd046c203 Make some comments use the term "ProcSignal" for consistency
The surroundings in procsignal.c prefer using "ProcSignal" rather than
"procsignal".

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACX99ghPmm1M_O4r4g+YsXFjCn=qF7PeDXntLwMpht_Gdg@mail.gmail.com
2021-11-09 12:56:34 +09:00
Alexander Korotkov 05e6e78c18 Reset lastOverflowedXid on standby when needed
Currently, lastOverflowedXid is never reset.  It's just adjusted on new
transactions known to be overflowed.  But if there are no overflowed
transactions for a long time, snapshots could be mistakenly marked as
suboverflowed due to wraparound.

This commit fixes this issue by resetting lastOverflowedXid when needed
altogether with KnownAssignedXids.

Backpatch to all supported versions.

Reported-by: Stan Hu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMBWrQ%3DFp5UAsU_nATY7EMY7NHczG4-DTDU%3DmCvBQZAQ6wa2xQ%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Stan Hu, Simon Riggs, Nikolay Samokhvalov, Andrey Borodin, Dmitry Dolgov
2021-11-06 19:13:58 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 6b1b405ebf Fix snapshot reference leak if lo_export fails.
If lo_export() fails to open the target file or to write to it, it leaks
the created LargeObjectDesc and its snapshot in the top-transaction
context and resource owner. That's pretty harmless, it's a small leak
after all, but it gives the user a "Snapshot reference leak" warning.

Fix by using a short-lived memory context and no resource owner for
transient LargeObjectDescs that are opened and closed within one function
call. The leak is easiest to reproduce with lo_export() on a directory
that doesn't exist, but in principle the other lo_* functions could also
fail.

Backpatch to all supported versions.

Reported-by: Andrew B
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/32bf767a-2d65-71c4-f170-122f416bab7e@iki.fi
2021-11-03 10:52:38 +02:00
Tom Lane 65c6cab136 Avoid O(N^2) behavior in SyncPostCheckpoint().
As in commits 6301c3ada and e9d9ba2a4, avoid doing repetitive
list_delete_first() operations, since that would be expensive when
there are many files waiting to be unlinked.  This is a slightly
larger change than in those cases.  We have to keep the list state
valid for calls to AbsorbSyncRequests(), so it's necessary to invent a
"canceled" field instead of immediately deleting PendingUnlinkEntry
entries.  Also, because we might not be able to process all the
entries, we need a new list primitive list_delete_first_n().

list_delete_first_n() is almost list_copy_tail(), but it modifies the
input List instead of making a new copy.  I found a couple of existing
uses of the latter that could profitably use the new function.  (There
might be more, but the other callers look like they probably shouldn't
overwrite the input List.)

As before, back-patch to v13.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CD2F0E7F-9822-45EC-A411-AE56F14DEA9F@amazon.com
2021-11-02 11:31:54 -04:00
Tom Lane 6301c3adab Avoid O(N^2) behavior when the standby process releases many locks.
When replaying a transaction that held many exclusive locks on the
primary, a standby server's startup process would expend O(N^2)
effort on manipulating the list of locks.  This code was fine when
written, but commit 1cff1b95a made repetitive list_delete_first()
calls inefficient, as explained in its commit message.  Fix by just
iterating the list normally, and releasing storage only when done.
(This'd be inadequate if we needed to recover from an error occurring
partway through; but we don't.)

Back-patch to v13 where 1cff1b95a came in.

Nathan Bossart

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CD2F0E7F-9822-45EC-A411-AE56F14DEA9F@amazon.com
2021-10-31 15:31:29 -04:00
Robert Haas 9ce346eabf Report progress of startup operations that take a long time.
Users sometimes get concerned whe they start the server and it
emits a few messages and then doesn't emit any more messages for
a long time. Generally, what's happening is either that the
system is taking a long time to apply WAL, or it's taking a
long time to reset unlogged relations, or it's taking a long
time to fsync the data directory, but it's not easy to tell
which is the case.

To fix that, add a new 'log_startup_progress_interval' setting,
by default 10s. When an operation that is known to be potentially
long-running takes more than this amount of time, we'll log a
status update each time this interval elapses.

To avoid undesirable log chatter, don't log anything about WAL
replay when in standby mode.

Nitin Jadhav and Robert Haas, reviewed by Amul Sul, Bharath
Rupireddy, Justin Pryzby, Michael Paquier, and Álvaro Herrera.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaHQrgDFOBwgY16XCoMtXxsrVGFB2jNCvb7-ubuEe1MGg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMm1aWaHF7VE69572_OLQ+MgpT5RUiUDgF1x5RrtkJBLdpRj3Q@mail.gmail.com
2021-10-25 11:51:57 -04:00
Noah Misch 3cd9c3b921 Fix CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY for the newest prepared transactions.
The purpose of commit 8a54e12a38 was to
fix this, and it sufficed when the PREPARE TRANSACTION completed before
the CIC looked for lock conflicts.  Otherwise, things still broke.  As
before, in a cluster having used CIC while having enabled prepared
transactions, queries that use the resulting index can silently fail to
find rows.  It may be necessary to reindex to recover from past
occurrences; REINDEX CONCURRENTLY suffices.  Fix this for future index
builds by making CIC wait for arbitrarily-recent prepared transactions
and for ordinary transactions that may yet PREPARE TRANSACTION.  As part
of that, have PREPARE TRANSACTION transfer locks to its dummy PGPROC
before it calls ProcArrayClearTransaction().  Back-patch to 9.6 (all
supported versions).

Andrey Borodin, reviewed (in earlier versions) by Andres Freund.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/01824242-AA92-4FE9-9BA7-AEBAFFEA3D0C@yandex-team.ru
2021-10-23 18:36:38 -07:00
Robert Haas 46846433a0 shm_mq: Update mq_bytes_written less often.
Do not update shm_mq's mq_bytes_written until we have written
an amount of data greater than 1/4th of the ring size, unless
the caller of shm_mq_send(v) requests a flush at the end of
the message. This reduces the number of calls to SetLatch(),
and also the number of CPU cache misses, considerably, and thus
makes shm_mq significantly faster.

Dilip Kumar, reviewed by Zhihong Yu and Tomas Vondra. Some
minor cosmetic changes by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-tVXqn_OG7tHNeSkBbN+iiCZTiQ83uakax43y1sQb2OBA@mail.gmail.com
2021-10-14 16:13:36 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson 7111e332c5 Fix duplicate words in comments
Remove accidentally duplicated words in code comments.

Author: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87bl45t0co.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
2021-10-04 15:12:57 +02:00
Michael Paquier 43c1c4f65e Introduce GUC shared_memory_size_in_huge_pages
This runtime-computed GUC shows the number of huge pages required
for the server's main shared memory area, taking advantage of the
work done in 0c39c29 and 0bd305e.  This is useful for users to estimate
the amount of huge pages required for a server as it becomes possible to
do an estimation without having to start the server and potentially
allocate a large chunk of shared memory.

The number of huge pages is calculated based on the existing GUC
huge_page_size if set, or by using the system's default by looking at
/proc/meminfo on Linux.  There is nothing new here as this commit reuses
the existing calculation methods, and just exposes this information
directly to the user.  The routine calculating the huge page size is
refactored to limit the number of files with platform-specific flags.

This new GUC's name was the most popular choice based on the discussion
done.  This is only supported on Linux.

I have taken the time to test the change on Linux, Windows and MacOS,
though for the last two ones large pages are not supported.  The first
one calculates correctly the number of pages depending on the existing
GUC huge_page_size or the system's default.

Thanks to Andres Freund, Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Tom Lane,
Justin Pryzby (and anybody forgotten here) for the discussion.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/F2772387-CE0F-46BF-B5F1-CC55516EB885@amazon.com
2021-09-21 10:31:58 +09:00
Fujii Masao dc899146db Fix variable shadowing in procarray.c.
ProcArrayGroupClearXid function has a parameter named "proc",
but the same name was used for its local variables. This commit fixes
this variable shadowing, to improve code readability.

Back-patch to all supported versions, to make future back-patching
easy though this patch is classified as refactoring only.

Reported-by: Ranier Vilela
Author: Ranier Vilela, Aleksander Alekseev
https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQAqyoTZC670xWi6w-Oe2_Bk1bfu2JzXz6xRfiOUzm7xbyQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-09-16 13:06:21 +09:00
Fujii Masao 64a62ebeeb Use int instead of size_t in procarray.c.
All size_t variables declared in procarray.c are actually int ones.
Let's use int instead of size_t for those variables. Which would
reduce Wsign-compare compiler warnings.

Back-patch to v14 where commit 941697c3c1 added size_t variables
in procarray.c, to make future back-patching easy though
this patch is classified as refactoring only.

Reported-by: Ranier Vilela
Author: Ranier Vilela, Aleksander Alekseev
https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQAqyoTZC670xWi6w-Oe2_Bk1bfu2JzXz6xRfiOUzm7xbyQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-09-16 12:52:30 +09:00
Tom Lane 8481f99896 Check for relation length overrun soon enough.
We don't allow relations to exceed 2^32-1 blocks, because block
numbers are 32 bits and the last possible block number is reserved
to mean InvalidBlockNumber.  There is a check for this in mdextend,
but that's really way too late, because the smgr API requires us to
create a buffer for the block-to-be-added, and we do not want to
have any buffer with blocknum InvalidBlockNumber.  (Such a case
can trigger assertions in bufmgr.c, plus I think it might confuse
ReadBuffer's logic for data-past-EOF later on.)  So put the check
into ReadBuffer.

Per report from Christoph Berg.  It's been like this forever,
so back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YTn1iTkUYBZfcODk@msg.credativ.de
2021-09-09 11:45:48 -04:00
Michael Paquier aa37a439db Fix compilation warning in ipci.c
A Size had better use %zu when printed.

Oversight in bd17880, per buildfarm member lapwing.
2021-09-08 14:22:52 +09:00
Michael Paquier bd1788051b Introduce GUC shared_memory_size
This runtime-computed GUC shows the size of the server's main shared
memory area, taking into account the amount of shared memory allocated
by extensions as this is calculated after processing
shared_preload_libraries.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/F2772387-CE0F-46BF-B5F1-CC55516EB885@amazon.com
2021-09-08 12:02:30 +09:00
Michael Paquier fd0625c7a9 Clean up some code using "(expr) ? true : false"
All the code paths simplified here were already using a boolean or used
an expression that led to zero or one, making the extra bits
unnecessary.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier, Peter Smith
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210428182936.GE27406@telsasoft.com
2021-09-08 09:44:04 +09:00
Michael Paquier 0bd305ee1d Move the shared memory size calculation to its own function
This change refactors the shared memory size calculation in
CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores() to its own function.  This is intended
for use in a future change related to the setup of huge pages and shared
memory with some GUCs, while useful on its own for extensions.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/F2772387-CE0F-46BF-B5F1-CC55516EB885@amazon.com
2021-09-06 10:59:20 +09:00
Tom Lane c95ede41b8 In count_usable_fds(), duplicate stderr not stdin.
We had a complaint that the postmaster fails to start if the invoking
program closes stdin.  That happens because count_usable_fds expects
to be able to dup(0), and if it can't, we conclude there are no free
FDs and go belly-up.  So far as I can find, though, there is no other
place in the server that touches stdin, and it's not unreasonable to
expect that a daemon wouldn't use that file.

As a simple improvement, let's dup FD 2 (stderr) instead.  Unlike stdin,
it *is* reasonable for us to expect that stderr be open; even if we are
configured not to touch it, common libraries such as libc might try to
write error messages there.

Per gripe from Mario Emmenlauer.  Given the lack of previous complaints,
I'm not excited about pushing this into stable branches, but it seems
OK to squeeze it into v14.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/48bafc63-c30f-3962-2ded-f2e985d93e86@emmenlauer.de
2021-09-02 18:53:10 -04:00
Amit Kapila 31c389d8de Optimize fileset usage in apply worker.
Use one fileset for the entire worker lifetime instead of using
separate filesets for each streaming transaction. Now, the
changes/subxacts files for every streaming transaction will be
created under the same fileset and the files will be deleted
after the transaction is completed.

This patch extends the BufFileOpenFileSet and BufFileDeleteFileSet
APIs to allow users to specify whether to give an error on missing
files.

Author: Dilip Kumar, based on suggestion by Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Hou Zhijie, Masahiko Sawada, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1mCC6U-0004Ik-Fs@gemulon.postgresql.org
2021-09-02 08:13:46 +05:30
Amit Kapila dcac5e7ac1 Refactor sharedfileset.c to separate out fileset implementation.
Move fileset related implementation out of sharedfileset.c to allow its
usage by backends that don't want to share filesets among different
processes. After this split, fileset infrastructure is used by both
sharedfileset.c and worker.c for the named temporary files that survive
across transactions.

Author: Dilip Kumar, based on suggestion by Andres Freund
Reviewed-by: Hou Zhijie, Masahiko Sawada, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1mCC6U-0004Ik-Fs@gemulon.postgresql.org
2021-08-30 08:48:15 +05:30
Peter Eisentraut 0d906b2c0b Fix handling of partitioned index in RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork()
Since a partitioned index doesn't have storage, getting the number of
blocks from it will not give sensible results.  Existing callers
already check that they don't call it that way, so there doesn't
appear to be a live problem.  But for correctness, handle
RELKIND_PARTITIONED_INDEX together with the other non-storage
relkinds.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1d3a5fbe-f48b-8bea-80da-9a5c4244aef9@enterprisedb.com
2021-08-26 08:59:32 +02:00
Tom Lane 0a208ed63f Un-break s_lock_test.
Commit 80abbeba2 evidently didn't bother checking this code.
Also, list the generated executable in .gitignore (so it's
been a REALLY long time since anyone tried this).

Noted while trying out RISC-V spinlock patch.  Given that
this has been broken for 5 years and nobody noticed, it's
likely not worth back-patching.
2021-08-13 14:42:27 -04:00
Andres Freund 675c945394 Move temporary file cleanup to before_shmem_exit().
As reported by a few OSX buildfarm animals there exist at least one path where
temporary files exist during AtProcExit_Files() processing. As temporary file
cleanup causes pgstat reporting, the assertions added in ee3f8d3d3a caused
failures.

This is not an OSX specific issue, we were just lucky that timing on OSX
reliably triggered the problem.  The known way to cause this is a FATAL error
during perform_base_backup() with a MANIFEST used - adding an elog(FATAL)
after InitializeBackupManifest() reliably reproduces the problem in isolation.

The problem is that the temporary file created in InitializeBackupManifest()
is not cleaned up via resource owner cleanup as WalSndResourceCleanup()
currently is only used for non-FATAL errors. That then allows to reach
AtProcExit_Files() with existing temporary files, causing the assertion
failure.

To fix this problem, move temporary file cleanup to a before_shmem_exit() hook
and add assertions ensuring that no temporary files are created before / after
temporary file management has been initialized / shut down. The cleanest way
to do so seems to be to split fd.c initialization into two, one for plain file
access and one for temporary file access.

Right now there's no need to perform further fd.c cleanup during process exit,
so I just renamed AtProcExit_Files() to BeforeShmemExit_Files(). Alternatively
we could perform another pass through the files to check that no temporary
files exist, but the added assertions seem to provide enough protection
against that.

It might turn out that the assertions added in ee3f8d3d3a will cause too much
noise - in that case we'll have to downgrade them to a WARNING, at least
temporarily.

This commit is not necessarily the best approach to address this issue, but it
should resolve the buildfarm failures. We can revise later.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210807190131.2bm24acbebl4wl6i@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-08-07 19:20:47 -07:00
Andres Freund b406478b87 process startup: Always call Init[Auxiliary]Process() before BaseInit().
For EXEC_BACKEND InitProcess()/InitAuxiliaryProcess() needs to have been
called well before we call BaseInit(), as SubPostmasterMain() needs LWLocks to
work. Having the order of initialization differ between platforms makes it
unnecessarily hard to understand the system and to add initialization points
for new subsystems without a lot of duplication.

To be able to change the order, BaseInit() cannot trigger
CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores() anymore - obviously that needs to have
happened before we can call InitProcess(). It seems cleaner to create shared
memory explicitly in single user/bootstrap mode anyway.

After this change the separation of bufmgr initialization into
InitBufferPoolAccess() / InitBufferPoolBackend() is not meaningful anymore so
the latter is removed.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210802164124.ufo5buo4apl6yuvs@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-08-05 15:36:59 -07:00
Andres Freund 1bc8e7b099 pgstat: split reporting/fetching of bgwriter and checkpointer stats.
These have been unrelated since bgwriter and checkpointer were split into two
processes in 806a2aee37. As there several pending patches (shared memory
stats, extending the set of tracked IO / buffer statistics) that are made a
bit more awkward by the grouping, split them. Done separately to make
reviewing easier.

This does *not* change the contents of pg_stat_bgwriter or move fields out of
bgwriter/checkpointer stats that arguably do not belong in either. However
pgstat_fetch_global() was renamed and split into
pgstat_fetch_stat_checkpointer() and pgstat_fetch_stat_bgwriter().

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210405092914.mmxqe7j56lsjfsej@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-08-04 19:16:04 -07:00
Thomas Munro 7ff23c6d27 Run checkpointer and bgwriter in crash recovery.
Start up the checkpointer and bgwriter during crash recovery (except in
--single mode), as we do for replication.  This wasn't done back in
commit cdd46c76 out of caution.  Now it seems like a better idea to make
the environment as similar as possible in both cases.  There may also be
some performance advantages.

Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Tested-by: Jakub Wartak <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ8NRsqgkZEnsnRc2MFROBV-jCnacbYvtpptK2A9YYp9Q%40mail.gmail.com
2021-08-02 17:32:44 +12:00
Heikki Linnakangas 317632f307 Move InRecovery and standbyState global vars to xlogutils.c.
They are used in code that runs both during normal operation and during
WAL replay, and needs to behave differently during replay. Move them to
xlogutils.c, because that's where we have other helper functions used by
redo routines.

Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/b3b71061-4919-e882-4857-27e370ab134a%40iki.fi
2021-07-31 09:50:26 +03:00
Tom Lane 28d936031a Get rid of artificial restriction on hash table sizes on Windows.
The point of introducing the hash_mem_multiplier GUC was to let users
reproduce the old behavior of hash aggregation, i.e. that it could use
more than work_mem at need.  However, the implementation failed to get
the job done on Win64, where work_mem is clamped to 2GB to protect
various places that calculate memory sizes using "long int".  As
written, the same clamp was applied to hash_mem.  This resulted in
severe performance regressions for queries requiring a bit more than
2GB for hash aggregation, as they now spill to disk and there's no
way to stop that.

Getting rid of the work_mem restriction seems like a good idea, but
it's a big job and could not conceivably be back-patched.  However,
there's only a fairly small number of places that are concerned with
the hash_mem value, and it turns out to be possible to remove the
restriction there without too much code churn or any ABI breaks.
So, let's do that for now to fix the regression, and leave the
larger task for another day.

This patch does introduce a bit more infrastructure that should help
with the larger task, namely pg_bitutils.h support for working with
size_t values.

Per gripe from Laurent Hasson.  Back-patch to v13 where the
behavior change came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/997817.1627074924@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/MN2PR15MB25601E80A9B6D1BA6F592B1985E39@MN2PR15MB2560.namprd15.prod.outlook.com
2021-07-25 14:02:27 -04:00
Andres Freund d9d8aa9bb9 Deduplicate choice of horizon for a relation procarray.c.
5a1e1d8302 was a minimal bug fix for dc7420c2c9. To avoid future bugs of
that kind, deduplicate the choice of a relation's horizon into a new helper,
GlobalVisHorizonKindForRel().

As the code in question was only introduced in dc7420c2c9 it seems worth
backpatching this change as well, otherwise 14 will look different from all
other branches.

A different approach to this was suggested by Matthias van de Meent.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210621122919.2qhu3pfugxxp3cji@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 14, like 5a1e1d8302
2021-07-24 20:25:37 -07:00
Tom Lane 6310809c4a Fix check for conflicting session- vs transaction-level locks.
We have an implementation restriction that PREPARE TRANSACTION can't
handle cases where both session-lifespan and transaction-lifespan locks
are held on the same lockable object.  (That's because we'd otherwise
need to acquire a new PROCLOCK entry during post-prepare cleanup, which
is an operation that might fail.  The situation can only arise with odd
usages of advisory locks, so removing the restriction is probably not
worth the amount of effort it would take.)  AtPrepare_Locks attempted
to enforce this, but its logic was many bricks shy of a load, because
it only detected cases where the session and transaction locks had the
same lockmode.  Locks of different modes on the same object would lead
to the rather unhelpful message "PANIC: we seem to have dropped a bit
somewhere".

To fix, build a transient hashtable with one entry per locktag,
not one per locktag + mode, and use that to detect conflicts.

Per bug #17122 from Alexander Pyhalov.  This bug is ancient,
so back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17122-04f3c32098a62233@postgresql.org
2021-07-24 18:35:52 -04:00
Thomas Munro 0c08856856 Don't use #if inside function-like macro arguments.
No concrete problem reported, but in the past it's been known to cause
problems on some compilers so let's avoid doing that.

Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/234364.1626704007%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-07-20 11:19:13 +12:00
Thomas Munro 04cad8f7bc Adjust commit 2dbe8905 for ancient macOS.
A couple of open flags used in an assertion didn't exist in macOS 10.4.
Per build farm animal prairiedog.  Also add O_EXCL while here (there are
a few more standard flags but they're not relevant and likely to be
missing).
2021-07-19 16:50:21 +12:00
Thomas Munro 2dbe890571 Support direct I/O on macOS.
Macs don't understand O_DIRECT, but they can disable caching with a
separate fcntl() call.  Extend the file opening functions in fd.c to
handle this for us if the caller passes in PG_O_DIRECT.

For now, this affects only WAL data and even then only if you set:

  max_wal_senders=0
  wal_level=minimal

This is not expected to be very useful on its own, but later proposed
patches will make greater use of direct I/O, and it'll be useful for
testing if developers on Macs can see the effects.

Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BADiyyHe0cun2wfT%2BSVnFVqNYPxoO6J9zcZkVO7%2BNGig%40mail.gmail.com
2021-07-19 11:01:01 +12:00
Tom Lane a49d081235 Replace explicit PIN entries in pg_depend with an OID range test.
As of v14, pg_depend contains almost 7000 "pin" entries recording
the OIDs of built-in objects.  This is a fair amount of bloat for
every database, and it adds time to pg_depend lookups as well as
initdb.  We can get rid of all of those entries in favor of an OID
range check, i.e. "OIDs below FirstUnpinnedObjectId are pinned".

(template1 and the public schema are exceptions.  Those exceptions
are now wired into IsPinnedObject() instead of initdb's code for
filling pg_depend, but it's the same amount of cruft either way.)

The contents of pg_shdepend are modified likewise.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3737988.1618451008@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-07-15 11:41:47 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 55b2a23407 Fix lack of message pluralization 2021-07-14 09:15:14 +02:00
Tom Lane f10f0ae420 Replace RelationOpenSmgr() with RelationGetSmgr().
The idea behind this patch is to design out bugs like the one fixed
by commit 9d523119f.  Previously, once one did RelationOpenSmgr(rel),
it was considered okay to access rel->rd_smgr directly for some
not-very-clear interval.  But since that pointer will be cleared by
relcache flushes, we had bugs arising from overreliance on a previous
RelationOpenSmgr call still being effective.

Now, very little code except that in rel.h and relcache.c should ever
touch the rd_smgr field directly.  The normal coding rule is to use
RelationGetSmgr(rel) and not expect the result to be valid for longer
than one smgr function call.  There are a couple of places where using
the function every single time seemed like overkill, but they are now
annotated with large warning comments.

Amul Sul, after an idea of mine.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANiYTQsU7yMFpQYnv=BrcRVqK_3U3mtAzAsJCaqtzsDHfsUbdQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-07-12 17:01:36 -04:00
Thomas Munro 2f78338064 Remove more obsolete comments about semaphores.
Commit 6753333f stopped using semaphores as the sleep/wake mechanism for
heavyweight locks, but some obsolete references to that scheme remained
in comments.  As with similar commit 25b93a29, back-patch all the way.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLafjB1uzXcy%3D%3D2L3cy7rjHkqOVn7qRYGBjk%3D%3DtMJE7Yg%40mail.gmail.com
2021-07-09 18:04:24 +12:00
Thomas Munro a2595e039c Remove some dead stores.
Remove redundant local variable assignments left behind by commit
2fc7af5e96.

Author: Quan Zongliang <quanzongliang@yeah.net>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion <pchampion@vmware.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/de141d14-4fd6-3148-99bf-856b71aa948a%40yeah.net
2021-07-02 13:32:21 +12:00
David Rowley 3788c66788 Improve various places that double the size of a buffer
Several places were performing a tight loop to determine the first power
of 2 number that's > or >= the required memory.  Instead of using a loop
for that, we can use pg_nextpower2_32 or pg_nextpower2_64.  When we need a
power of 2 number equal to or greater than a given amount, we just pass
the amount to the nextpower2 function.  When we need a power of 2 greater
than the amount, we just pass the amount + 1.

Additionally, in tsearch there were a couple of locations that were
performing a while loop when a simple "if" would have done.  In both of
these locations only 1 item is being added, so the loop could only have
ever iterated once.  Changing the loop into an if statement makes the code
very slightly more optimal as the condition is checked once rather than
twice.

There are quite a few remaining locations that increase the size of the
buffer in the following form:

  while (reqsize >= buflen)
  {
     buflen *= 2;
     buf = repalloc(buf, buflen);
  }

These are not touched in this commit.  repalloc will error out for sizes
larger than MaxAllocSize.  Changing these to use pg_nextpower2_32 would
remove the chance of that error being raised.  It's unclear from the code
if the sizes could ever become that large, so err on the side of caution.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvp=tns7RL4PH0ZR0M+M-YFLquK7218x=0B_zO+DbOma+w@mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu
2021-07-01 15:29:06 +12:00
Andrew Dunstan e1c1c30f63
Pre branch pgindent / pgperltidy run
Along the way make a slight adjustment to
src/include/utils/queryjumble.h to avoid an unused typedef.
2021-06-28 11:05:54 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut c31833779d Message style improvements 2021-06-28 08:36:44 +02:00
Andres Freund 5a1e1d8302 Use correct horizon when vacuuming catalog relations.
In dc7420c2c9 I (Andres) accidentally used
RelationIsAccessibleInLogicalDecoding() as the sole condition to use the
non-shared catalog horizon in GetOldestNonRemovableTransactionId(). That is
incorrect, as RelationIsAccessibleInLogicalDecoding() checks whether wal_level
is logical.

The correct check, as done e.g. in GlobalVisTestFor(), is to check
IsCatalogRelation() and RelationIsAccessibleInLogicalDecoding().

The observed misbehavior of this bug was that there could be an endless loop
in lazy_scan_prune(), because the horizons used in heap_page_prune() and the
individual tuple liveliness checks did not match. Likely there are other
potential consequences as well.

A later commit will unify the determination which horizon has to be used, and
add additional assertions to make it easier to catch a bug like this.

Reported-By: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Diagnosed-By: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Author: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2Wg32Y9+WJfw=aofkRx1ZRFt_Ev6bNPc4PSaz7PjSFtZgQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-06-21 05:13:46 -07:00
Noah Misch 5f1df62a45 Remove pg_wait_for_backend_termination().
It was unable to wait on a backend that had already left the procarray.
Users tolerant of that limitation can poll pg_stat_activity.  Other
users can employ the "timeout" argument of pg_terminate_backend().

Reviewed by Bharath Rupireddy.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210605013236.GA208701@rfd.leadboat.com
2021-06-14 17:29:37 -07:00
Noah Misch 0aac73e6a2 Copy-edit text for the pg_terminate_backend() "timeout" parameter.
Revert the pg_description entry to its v13 form, since those messages
usually remain shorter and don't discuss individual parameters.  No
catversion bump, since pg_description content does not impair backend
compatibility or application compatibility.

Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210612182743.GY16435@telsasoft.com
2021-06-14 17:29:37 -07:00
Andres Freund d8e950d3ae Improve and cleanup ProcArrayAdd(), ProcArrayRemove().
941697c3c1 changed ProcArrayAdd()/Remove() substantially. As reported by
zhanyi, I missed that due to the introduction of the PGPROC->pgxactoff
ProcArrayRemove() does not need to search for the position in
procArray->pgprocnos anymore - that's pgxactoff. Remove the search loop.

The removal of the search loop reduces assertion coverage a bit - but we can
easily do better than before by adding assertions to other loops over
pgprocnos elements.

Also do a bit of cleanup, mostly by reducing line lengths by introducing local
helper variables and adding newlines.

Author: zhanyi <w@hidva.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/tencent_5624AA3B116B3D1C31CA9744@qq.com
2021-06-11 21:33:07 -07:00
David Rowley 2ded19fa3a Fix typo and outdated information in README.barrier
README.barrier didn't seem to get the memo when atomics were added. Fix
that.

Author: Tatsuo Ishii, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210516.211133.2159010194908437625.t-ishii%40sraoss.co.jp
Backpatch-through: 9.6, oldest supported release
2021-05-18 09:54:56 +12:00
Tom Lane def5b065ff Initial pgindent and pgperltidy run for v14.
Also "make reformat-dat-files".

The only change worthy of note is that pgindent messed up the formatting
of launcher.c's struct LogicalRepWorkerId, which led me to notice that
that struct wasn't used at all anymore, so I just took it out.
2021-05-12 13:14:10 -04:00
Thomas Munro c2dc19342e Revert recovery prefetching feature.
This set of commits has some bugs with known fixes, but at this late
stage in the release cycle it seems best to revert and resubmit next
time, along with some new automated test coverage for this whole area.

Commits reverted:

dc88460c: Doc: Review for "Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery."
1d257577: Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery.
f003d9f8: Add circular WAL decoding buffer.
323cbe7c: Remove read_page callback from XLogReader.

Remove the new GUC group WAL_RECOVERY recently added by a55a9847, as the
corresponding section of config.sgml is now reverted.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOuzzgrn7iKnFRsB4MHp3UisEQAGgZMbk_ViTN4HV4-Ksq8zCg%40mail.gmail.com
2021-05-10 16:06:09 +12:00
Peter Eisentraut b94409a02f Prevent lwlock dtrace probes from unnecessary work
If dtrace is compiled in but disabled, the lwlock dtrace probes still
evaluate their arguments.  Since PostgreSQL 13, T_NAME(lock) does
nontrivial work, so it should be avoided if not needed.  To fix, make
these calls conditional on the *_ENABLED() macro corresponding to each
probe.

Reviewed-by: Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAGRY4nwxKUS_RvXFW-ugrZBYxPFFM5kjwKT5O+0+Stuga5b4+Q@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-03 12:18:27 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 82c3cd9741 Factor out system call names from error messages
Instead, put them in via a format placeholder.  This reduces the
number of distinct translatable messages and also reduces the chances
of typos during translation.  We already did this for the system call
arguments in a number of cases, so this is just the same thing taken a
bit further.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/92d6f545-5102-65d8-3c87-489f71ea0a37%40enterprisedb.com
2021-04-23 14:21:37 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 9486844f30 Use correct format placeholder for WSAGetLastError()
Some code thought this was unsigned, but it's signed int.
2021-04-23 14:21:37 +02:00
Michael Paquier 7ef8b52cf0 Fix typos and grammar in comments and docs
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210416070310.GG3315@telsasoft.com
2021-04-19 11:32:30 +09:00
Thomas Munro 1d257577e0 Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery.
Introduce a new GUC recovery_prefetch, disabled by default.  When
enabled, look ahead in the WAL and try to initiate asynchronous reading
of referenced data blocks that are not yet cached in our buffer pool.
For now, this is done with posix_fadvise(), which has several caveats.
Better mechanisms will follow in later work on the I/O subsystem.

The GUC maintenance_io_concurrency is used to limit the number of
concurrent I/Os we allow ourselves to initiate, based on pessimistic
heuristics used to infer that I/Os have begun and completed.

The GUC wal_decode_buffer_size is used to limit the maximum distance we
are prepared to read ahead in the WAL to find uncached blocks.

Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> (parts)
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (parts)
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> (parts)
Tested-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Tested-by: Jakub Wartak <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sait Talha Nisanci <Sait.Nisanci@microsoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ4VJN8ttxScUFM8dOKX0BrBiboo5uz1cq%3DAovOddfHpA%40mail.gmail.com
2021-04-08 23:20:42 +12:00
Magnus Hagander aaf0432572 Add functions to wait for backend termination
This adds a function, pg_wait_for_backend_termination(), and a new
timeout argument to pg_terminate_backend(), which will wait for the
backend to actually terminate (with or without signaling it to do so
depending on which function is called). The default behaviour of
pg_terminate_backend() remains being timeout=0 which does not waiting.
For pg_wait_for_backend_termination() the default wait is 5 seconds.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-By: Fujii Masao, David Johnston, Muhammad Usama,
             Hou Zhijie, Magnus Hagander
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACUBpunmyhYZw-kXCYs5NM+h6oG_7Df_Tn4mLmmUQifkqA@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-08 11:40:54 +02:00
Thomas Munro 2f27f8c511 Provide ReadRecentBuffer() to re-pin buffers by ID.
If you know the ID of a buffer that recently held a block that you would
like to pin, this function can be used check if it's still there.  It
can be used to avoid a second lookup in the buffer mapping table after
PrefetchBuffer() reports a cache hit.

Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ4VJN8ttxScUFM8dOKX0BrBiboo5uz1cq=AovOddfHpA@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-08 17:50:25 +12:00
Peter Geoghegan 3c3b8a4b26 Truncate line pointer array during VACUUM.
Teach VACUUM to truncate the line pointer array of each heap page when a
contiguous group of LP_UNUSED line pointers appear at the end of the
array -- these unused and unreferenced items are excluded.  This process
occurs during VACUUM's second pass over the heap, right after LP_DEAD
line pointers on the page (those encountered/pruned during the first
pass) are marked LP_UNUSED.

Truncation avoids line pointer bloat with certain workloads,
particularly those involving continual range DELETEs and bulk INSERTs
against the same table.

Also harden heapam code to check for an out-of-range page offset number
in places where we weren't already doing so.

Author: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2WjgaQc55Y5f5CQd3L=eS5CZcff2Obxp=O6pto8-f0hC4w@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzn6a64PJM1Ggzm=uvx2otsopJMhFQj_g1rAj4GWr3ZSzw@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-07 08:47:15 -07:00
Andres Freund 90c885cdab Increment xactCompletionCount during subtransaction abort.
Snapshot caching, introduced in 623a9ba79b, did not increment
xactCompletionCount during subtransaction abort. That could lead to an older
snapshot being reused. That is, at least as far as I can see, not a
correctness issue (for MVCC snapshots there's no difference between "in
progress" and "aborted"). The only difference between the old and new
snapshots would be a newer ->xmax.

While HeapTupleSatisfiesMVCC makes the same visibility determination, reusing
the old snapshot leads HeapTupleSatisfiesMVCC to not set
HEAP_XMIN_INVALID. Which subsequently causes the kill_prior_tuple optimization
to not kick in (via HeapTupleIsSurelyDead() returning false). The performance
effects of doing the same index-lookups over and over again is how the issue
was discovered...

Fix the issue by incrementing xactCompletionCount in
XidCacheRemoveRunningXids. It already acquires ProcArrayLock exclusively,
making that an easy proposition.

Add a test to ensure that kill_prior_tuple prevents index growth when it
involves aborted subtransaction of the current transaction.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210406043521.lopeo7bbigad3n6t@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210317055718.v6qs3ltzrformqoa%40alap3.anarazel.de
2021-04-06 09:24:50 -07:00
Fujii Masao 43620e3286 Add function to log the memory contexts of specified backend process.
Commit 3e98c0bafb added pg_backend_memory_contexts view to display
the memory contexts of the backend process. However its target process
is limited to the backend that is accessing to the view. So this is
not so convenient when investigating the local memory bloat of other
backend process. To improve this situation, this commit adds
pg_log_backend_memory_contexts() function that requests to log
the memory contexts of the specified backend process.

This information can be also collected by calling
MemoryContextStats(TopMemoryContext) via a debugger. But
this technique cannot be used in some environments because no debugger
is available there. So, pg_log_backend_memory_contexts() allows us to
see the memory contexts of specified backend more easily.

Only superusers are allowed to request to log the memory contexts
because allowing any users to issue this request at an unbounded rate
would cause lots of log messages and which can lead to denial of service.

On receipt of the request, at the next CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS(),
the target backend logs its memory contexts at LOG_SERVER_ONLY level,
so that these memory contexts will appear in the server log but not
be sent to the client. It logs one message per memory context.
Because if it buffers all memory contexts into StringInfo to log them
as one message, which may require the buffer to be enlarged very much
and lead to OOM error since there can be a large number of memory
contexts in a backend.

When a backend process is consuming huge memory, logging all its
memory contexts might overrun available disk space. To prevent this,
now this patch limits the number of child contexts to log per parent
to 100. As with MemoryContextStats(), it supposes that practical cases
where the log gets long will typically be huge numbers of siblings
under the same parent context; while the additional debugging value
from seeing details about individual siblings beyond 100 will not be large.

There was another proposed patch to add the function to return
the memory contexts of specified backend as the result sets,
instead of logging them, in the discussion. However that patch is
not included in this commit because it had several issues to address.

Thanks to Tatsuhito Kasahara, Andres Freund, Tom Lane, Tomas Vondra,
Michael Paquier, Kyotaro Horiguchi and Zhihong Yu for the discussion.

Bump catalog version.

Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Zhihong Yu, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0271f440ac77f2a4180e0e56ebd944d1@oss.nttdata.com
2021-04-06 13:44:15 +09:00
Fujii Masao ad8b674922 Shut down transaction tracking at startup process exit.
Maxim Orlov reported that the shutdown of standby server could result in
the following assertion failure. The cause of this issue was that,
when the shutdown caused the startup process to exit, recovery-time
transaction tracking was not shut down even if it's already initialized,
and some locks the tracked transactions were holding could not be released.
At this situation, if other process was invoked and the PGPROC entry that
the startup process used was assigned to it, it found such unreleased locks
and caused the assertion failure, during the initialization of it.

    TRAP: FailedAssertion("SHMQueueEmpty(&(MyProc->myProcLocks[i]))"

This commit fixes this issue by making the startup process shut down
transaction tracking and release all locks, at the exit of it.

Back-patch to all supported branches.

Reported-by: Maxim Orlov
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Maxim Orlov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ad4ce692cc1d89a093b471ab1d969b0b@postgrespro.ru
2021-04-06 02:25:37 +09:00
Andres Freund 225a22b19e Improve efficiency of wait event reporting, remove proc.h dependency.
pgstat_report_wait_start() and pgstat_report_wait_end() required two
conditional branches so far. One to check if MyProc is NULL, the other to
check if pgstat_track_activities is set. As wait events are used around
comparatively lightweight operations, and are inlined (reducing branch
predictor effectiveness), that's not great.

The dependency on MyProc has a second disadvantage: Low-level subsystems, like
storage/file/fd.c, report wait events, but architecturally it is preferable
for them to not depend on inter-process subsystems like proc.h (defining
PGPROC).  After this change including pgstat.h (nor obviously its
sub-components like backend_status.h, wait_event.h, ...) does not pull in IPC
related headers anymore.

These goals, efficiency and abstraction, are achieved by having
pgstat_report_wait_start/end() not interact with MyProc, but instead a new
my_wait_event_info variable. At backend startup it points to a local variable,
removing the need to check for MyProc being NULL. During process
initialization my_wait_event_info is redirected to MyProc->wait_event_info. At
shutdown this is reversed. Because wait event reporting now does not need to
know about where the wait event is stored, it does not need to know about
PGPROC anymore.

The removal of the branch for checking pgstat_track_activities is simpler:
Don't check anymore. The cost due to the branch are often higher than the
store - and even if not, pgstat_track_activities is rarely disabled.

The main motivator to commit this work now is that removing the (indirect)
pgproc.h include from pgstat.h simplifies a patch to move statistics reporting
to shared memory (which still has a chance to get into 14).

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210402194458.2vu324hkk2djq6ce@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-04-03 12:03:45 -07:00
Andres Freund 1d9c5d0ce2 Do not rely on pgstat.h to indirectly include storage/ headers.
An upcoming patch might remove the (now indirect) proc.h
include (which in turn includes other headers), and it's cleaner for
the modified files to include their dependencies directly anyway...

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210402194458.2vu324hkk2djq6ce@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-04-02 20:02:47 -07:00
Stephen Frost c9c41c7a33 Rename Default Roles to Predefined Roles
The term 'default roles' wasn't quite apt as these roles aren't able to
be modified or removed after installation, so rename them to be
'Predefined Roles' instead, adding an entry into the newly added
Obsolete Appendix to help users of current releases find the new
documentation.

Bruce Momjian and Stephen Frost

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/157742545062.1149.11052653770497832538%40wrigleys.postgresql.org
and https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20201120211304.GG16415@tamriel.snowman.net
2021-04-01 15:32:06 -04:00
Etsuro Fujita 27e1f14563 Add support for asynchronous execution.
This implements asynchronous execution, which runs multiple parts of a
non-parallel-aware Append concurrently rather than serially to improve
performance when possible.  Currently, the only node type that can be
run concurrently is a ForeignScan that is an immediate child of such an
Append.  In the case where such ForeignScans access data on different
remote servers, this would run those ForeignScans concurrently, and
overlap the remote operations to be performed simultaneously, so it'll
improve the performance especially when the operations involve
time-consuming ones such as remote join and remote aggregation.

We may extend this to other node types such as joins or aggregates over
ForeignScans in the future.

This also adds the support for postgres_fdw, which is enabled by the
table-level/server-level option "async_capable".  The default is false.

Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Thomas Munro, and myself.  This commit
is mostly based on the patch proposed by Robert Haas, but also uses
stuff from the patch proposed by Kyotaro Horiguchi and from the patch
proposed by Thomas Munro.  Reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi, Konstantin
Knizhnik, Andrey Lepikhov, Movead Li, Thomas Munro, Justin Pryzby, and
others.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BTgmoaXQEt4tZ03FtQhnzeDEMzBck%2BLrni0UWHVVgOTnA6C1w%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLBRyu0rHrDCMC4%3DRn3252gogyp1SjOgG8SEKKZv%3DFwfQ%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200228.170650.667613673625155850.horikyota.ntt%40gmail.com
2021-03-31 18:45:00 +09:00
Peter Geoghegan 30aaab26e5 PageAddItemExtended(): Add LP_UNUSED assertion.
Assert that LP_UNUSED items have no storage.  If it's worth having
defensive code in non-assert builds then it's worth having an assertion
as well.
2021-03-28 20:10:02 -07:00
Michael Paquier 909b449e00 Fix concurrency issues with WAL segment recycling on Windows
This commit is mostly a revert of aaa3aed, that switched the routine
doing the internal renaming of recycled WAL segments to use on Windows a
combination of CreateHardLinkA() plus unlink() instead of rename().  As
reported by several users of Postgres 13, this is causing concurrency
issues when manipulating WAL segments, mostly in the shape of the
following error:
LOG:  could not rename file "pg_wal/000000XX000000YY000000ZZ":
Permission denied

This moves back to a logic where a single rename() (well, pgrename() for
Windows) is used.  This issue has proved to be hard to hit when I tested
it, facing it only once with an archive_command that was not able to do
its work, so it is environment-sensitive.  The reporters of this issue
have been able to confirm that the situation improved once we switched
back to a single rename().  In order to check things, I have provided to
the reporters a patched build based on 13.2 with aaa3aed reverted, to
test if the error goes away, and an unpatched build of 13.2 to test if
the error still showed up (just to make sure that I did not mess up my
build process).

Extra thanks to Fujii Masao for pointing out what looked like the
culprit commit, and to all the reporters for taking the time to test
what I have sent them.

Reported-by: Andrus, Guy Burgess, Yaroslav Pashinsky, Thomas Trenz
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3861ff1e-0923-7838-e826-094cc9bef737@hot.ee
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16874-c3eecd319e36a2bf@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/095ccf8d-7f58-d928-427c-b17ace23cae6@burgess.co.nz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16927-67c570d968c99567%40postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YFBcRbnBiPdGZvfW@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 13
2021-03-22 14:02:26 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 96ae658e62 Move lwlock-release probe back where it belongs
The documentation specifically states that lwlock-release fires before
any released waiters have been awakened.  It worked that way until
ab5194e6f6, where is seems to have been
misplaced accidentally.  Move it back where it belongs.

Author: Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAGRY4nwxKUS_RvXFW-ugrZBYxPFFM5kjwKT5O+0+Stuga5b4+Q@mail.gmail.com
2021-03-21 08:02:30 +01:00
Thomas Munro 61752afb26 Provide recovery_init_sync_method=syncfs.
Since commit 2ce439f3 we have opened every file in the data directory
and called fsync() at the start of crash recovery.  This can be very
slow if there are many files, leading to field complaints of systems
taking minutes or even hours to begin crash recovery.

Provide an alternative method, for Linux only, where we call syncfs() on
every possibly different filesystem under the data directory.  This is
equivalent, but avoids faulting in potentially many inodes from
potentially slow storage.

The new mode comes with some caveats, described in the documentation, so
the default value for the new setting is "fsync", preserving the older
behavior.

Reported-by: Michael Brown <michael.brown@discourse.org>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Guo <guopa@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11bc2bb7-ecb5-3ad0-b39f-df632734cd81%40discourse.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEET0ZHGnbXmi8yF3ywsDZvb3m9CbdsGZgfTXscQ6agcbzcZAw%40mail.gmail.com
2021-03-20 12:07:28 +13:00
Tomas Vondra cd91de0d17 Remove temporary files after backend crash
After a crash of a backend using temporary files, the files used to be
left behind, on the basis that it might be useful for debugging. But we
don't have any reports of anyone actually doing that, and it means the
disk usage may grow over time due to repeated backend failures (possibly
even hitting ENOSPC). So this behavior is a bit unfortunate, and fixing
it required either manual cleanup (deleting files, which is error-prone)
or restart of the instance (i.e. service disruption).

This implements automatic cleanup of temporary files, controled by a new
GUC remove_temp_files_after_crash. By default the files are removed, but
it can be disabled to restore the old behavior if needed.

Author: Euler Taveira
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Michael Paquier, Anastasia Lubennikova, Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH503wDKdYzyq7U-QJqGn%3DGm6XmoK%2B6_6xTJ-Yn5WSvoHLY1Ww%40mail.gmail.com
2021-03-18 17:38:28 +01:00
Fujii Masao d75288fb27 Make archiver process an auxiliary process.
This commit changes WAL archiver process so that it's treated as
an auxiliary process and can use shared memory. This is an infrastructure
patch required for upcoming shared-memory based stats collector patch
series. These patch series basically need any processes including archiver
that can report the statistics to access to shared memory. Since this patch
itself is useful to simplify the code and when users monitor the status of
archiver, it's committed separately in advance.

This commit simplifies the code for WAL archiving. For example, previously
backends need to signal to archiver via postmaster when they notify
archiver that there are some WAL files to archive. On the other hand,
this commit removes that signal to postmaster and enables backends to
notify archier directly using shared latch.

Also, as the side of this change, the information about archiver process
becomes viewable at pg_stat_activity view.

Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera, Julien Rouhaud, Tomas Vondra, Arthur Zakirov, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180629.173418.190173462.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
2021-03-15 13:13:14 +09:00
Thomas Munro 1b88b8908e Specialize checkpointer sort functions.
When sorting a potentially large number of dirty buffers, the
checkpointer can benefit from a faster sort routine.  One reported
improvement on a large buffer pool system was 1.4s -> 0.6s.

Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ2-eaDqAum5bxhpMNhvuJmRDZxB_Tow0n-gse%2BHG0Yig%40mail.gmail.com
2021-03-12 23:56:02 +13:00
Amit Kapila 519e4c9ee2 Fix size overflow in calculation introduced by commits d6ad34f3 and bea449c6.
Reported-by: Thomas Munro
Author: Takayuki Tsunakawa
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKG+oPoFizjABt=GXZWTEHx3oev5rAe2scjW2r6F1rguo5w@mail.gmail.com
2021-03-12 15:42:08 +05:30
Thomas Munro 43c6662496 Minor modernization for README.barrier.
Itanium is very uncommon and being discontinued.  ARM is everywhere.
Prefer ARM as an example of an architecture with weak memory ordering.
2021-03-12 15:36:16 +13:00
Thomas Munro d87251048a Replace buffer I/O locks with condition variables.
1.  Backends waiting for buffer I/O are now interruptible.

2.  If something goes wrong in a backend that is currently performing
I/O, waiting backends no longer wake up until that backend reaches
AbortBufferIO() and broadcasts on the CV.  Previously, any waiters would
wake up (because the I/O lock was automatically released) and then
busy-loop until AbortBufferIO() cleared BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS.

3.  LWLockMinimallyPadded is removed, as it would now be unused.

Author: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> (earlier version, 2016)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ8nBFrjLuCTuqKN0pd2PQOwj9b_jnsiGFFMDvUxahj_A%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoaj2aPti0yho7FeEf2qt-JgQPRWb0gci_o1Hfr=C56Xng@mail.gmail.com
2021-03-11 10:36:17 +13:00
Thomas Munro bd69ddfcdb Remove obsolete comment for WaitForProcSignalBarrier().
Commit 814f1d8b removed the behavior described.

Reported-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
2021-03-02 09:30:57 +13:00
Thomas Munro f5a5773a9d Allow condition variables to be used in interrupt code.
Adjust the condition variable sleep loop to work correctly when code
reached by its internal CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() call interacts with
another condition variable.

There are no such cases currently, but a proposed patch would do this.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGLdemy2gBm80kz20GTe6hNVwoErE8KwcJk6-U56oStjtg@mail.gmail.com
2021-03-01 17:24:47 +13:00
Thomas Munro 814f1d8bc3 Use condition variables for ProcSignalBarriers.
Instead of a poll/sleep loop, use a condition variable for precise
wake-up whenever a backend's pss_barrierGeneration advances.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGLdemy2gBm80kz20GTe6hNVwoErE8KwcJk6-U56oStjtg@mail.gmail.com
2021-03-01 17:23:43 +13:00
Thomas Munro 6148656a0b Use EVFILT_SIGNAL for kqueue latches.
Cut down on system calls and other overheads by waiting for SIGURG
explicitly with kqueue instead of using a signal handler and self-pipe.
Affects *BSD and macOS systems.

This leaves only the poll implementation with a signal handler and the
traditional self-pipe trick.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJjxPDpzBE0a3hyUywBvaZuC89yx3jK9RFZgfv_KHU7gg@mail.gmail.com
2021-03-01 14:20:04 +13:00
Thomas Munro 6a2a70a020 Use signalfd(2) for epoll latches.
Cut down on system calls and other overheads by reading from a signalfd
instead of using a signal handler and self-pipe.  Affects Linux sytems,
and possibly others including illumos that implement the Linux epoll and
signalfd interfaces.

Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJjxPDpzBE0a3hyUywBvaZuC89yx3jK9RFZgfv_KHU7gg@mail.gmail.com
2021-03-01 14:12:02 +13:00
Thomas Munro 83709a0d5a Use SIGURG rather than SIGUSR1 for latches.
Traditionally, SIGUSR1 has been overloaded for ad-hoc signals,
procsignal.c signals and latch.c wakeups.  Move that last use over to a
new dedicated signal.  SIGURG is normally used to report out-of-band
socket data, but PostgreSQL doesn't use that facility.

The signal handler is now installed in all postmaster children by
InitializeLatchSupport().  Those wishing to disconnect from it should
call ShutdownLatchSupport().

Future patches will use this separation of signals to avoid the need for
a signal handler on some operating systems.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJjxPDpzBE0a3hyUywBvaZuC89yx3jK9RFZgfv_KHU7gg@mail.gmail.com
2021-03-01 12:44:12 +13:00
Thomas Munro c8f3bc2401 Optimize latches to send fewer signals.
Don't send signals to processes that aren't sleeping.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJjxPDpzBE0a3hyUywBvaZuC89yx3jK9RFZgfv_KHU7gg@mail.gmail.com
2021-03-01 12:44:12 +13:00
Thomas Munro d1b90995e8 Remove latch.c workaround for Linux < 2.6.27.
Commit 82ebbeb0 added a workaround for systems with no epoll_create1()
and EPOLL_CLOEXEC.  Linux < 2.6.27 and glibc < 2.9 are long gone.  Now
seems like a good time to drop the extra code, because otherwise we'd
have to add similar already-dead workaround code to new patches using
XXX_CLOEXEC flags that arrived in the same kernel release.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKL_%3DaO%3Dr30N%3Ds9VoDgTqHpRSzePRbA9dkYO7snc7HsxA%40mail.gmail.com
2021-03-01 11:24:28 +13:00
David Rowley bb437f995d Add TID Range Scans to support efficient scanning ranges of TIDs
This adds a new executor node named TID Range Scan.  The query planner
will generate paths for TID Range scans when quals are discovered on base
relations which search for ranges on the table's ctid column.  These
ranges may be open at either end. For example, WHERE ctid >= '(10,0)';
will return all tuples on page 10 and over.

To support this, two new optional callback functions have been added to
table AM.  scan_set_tidrange is used to set the scan range to just the
given range of TIDs.  scan_getnextslot_tidrange fetches the next tuple
in the given range.

For AMs were scanning ranges of TIDs would not make sense, these functions
can be set to NULL in the TableAmRoutine.  The query planner won't
generate TID Range Scan Paths in that case.

Author: Edmund Horner, David Rowley
Reviewed-by: David Rowley, Tomas Vondra, Tom Lane, Andres Freund, Zhihong Yu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMyN-kB-nFTkF=VA_JPwFNo08S0d-Yk0F741S2B7LDmYAi8eyA@mail.gmail.com
2021-02-27 22:59:36 +13:00
Peter Geoghegan e5d8a99903 Use full 64-bit XIDs in deleted nbtree pages.
Otherwise we risk "leaking" deleted pages by making them non-recyclable
indefinitely.  Commit 6655a729 did the same thing for deleted pages in
GiST indexes.  That work was used as a starting point here.

Stop storing an XID indicating the oldest bpto.xact across all deleted
though unrecycled pages in nbtree metapages.  There is no longer any
reason to care about that condition/the oldest XID.  It only ever made
sense when wraparound was something _bt_vacuum_needs_cleanup() had to
consider.

The btm_oldest_btpo_xact metapage field has been repurposed and renamed.
It is now btm_last_cleanup_num_delpages, which is used to remember how
many non-recycled deleted pages remain from the last VACUUM (in practice
its value is usually the precise number of pages that were _newly
deleted_ during the specific VACUUM operation that last set the field).

The general idea behind storing btm_last_cleanup_num_delpages is to use
it to give _some_ consideration to non-recycled deleted pages inside
_bt_vacuum_needs_cleanup() -- though never too much.  We only really
need to avoid leaving a truly excessive number of deleted pages in an
unrecycled state forever.  We only do this to cover certain narrow cases
where no other factor makes VACUUM do a full scan, and yet the index
continues to grow (and so actually misses out on recycling existing
deleted pages).

These metapage changes result in a clear user-visible benefit: We no
longer trigger full index scans during VACUUM operations solely due to
the presence of only 1 or 2 known deleted (though unrecycled) blocks
from a very large index.  All that matters now is keeping the costs and
benefits in balance over time.

Fix an issue that has been around since commit 857f9c36, which added the
"skip full scan of index" mechanism (i.e. the _bt_vacuum_needs_cleanup()
logic).  The accuracy of btm_last_cleanup_num_heap_tuples accidentally
hinged upon _when_ the source value gets stored.  We now always store
btm_last_cleanup_num_heap_tuples in btvacuumcleanup().  This fixes the
issue because IndexVacuumInfo.num_heap_tuples (the source field) is
expected to accurately indicate the state of the table _after_ the
VACUUM completes inside btvacuumcleanup().

A backpatchable fix cannot easily be extracted from this commit.  A
targeted fix for the issue will follow in a later commit, though that
won't happen today.

I (pgeoghegan) have chosen to remove any mention of deleted pages in the
documentation of the vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor GUC/param, since
the presence of deleted (though unrecycled) pages is no longer of much
concern to users.  The vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor description in
the docs now seems rather unclear in any case, and it should probably be
rewritten in the near future.  Perhaps some passing mention of page
deletion will be added back at the same time.

Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC due to nbtree WAL records using full XIDs now.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznpdHvujGUwYZ8sihX=d5u-tRYhi-F4wnV2uN2zHpMUXw@mail.gmail.com
2021-02-24 18:41:34 -08:00
Michael Paquier bcf2667bf6 Fix some typos, grammar and style in docs and comments
The portions fixing the documentation are backpatched where needed.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210210235557.GQ20012@telsasoft.com
backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-02-24 16:13:17 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera d9d076222f
VACUUM: ignore indexing operations with CONCURRENTLY
As envisioned in commit c98763bf51, it is possible for VACUUM to
ignore certain transactions that are executing CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY
and REINDEX CONCURRENTLY for the purposes of computing Xmin; that's
because we know those transactions are not going to examine any other
tables, and are not going to execute anything else in the same
transaction.  (Only operations on "safe" indexes can be ignored: those
on indexes that are neither partial nor expressional).

This is extremely useful in cases where CIC/RC can run for a very long
time, because that used to be a significant headache for concurrent
vacuuming of other tables.

Reviewed-by: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210115133858.GA18931@alvherre.pgsql
2021-02-23 12:15:09 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 6f6f284c7e Simplify printing of LSNs
Add a macro LSN_FORMAT_ARGS for use in printf-style printing of LSNs.
Convert all applicable code to use it.

Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAExHW5ub5NaTELZ3hJUCE6amuvqAtsSxc7O+uK7y4t9Rrk23cw@mail.gmail.com
2021-02-23 10:27:02 +01:00
Alvaro Herrera 6a03369a71
Fix typo 2021-02-22 11:34:05 -03:00
Fujii Masao f05ed5a5cf Initialize atomic variable waitStart in PGPROC, at postmaster startup.
Commit 46d6e5f567 added the atomic variable "waitStart" into PGPROC struct,
to store the time at which wait for lock acquisition started. Previously
this variable was initialized every time each backend started. Instead,
this commit makes postmaster initialize it at the startup, to ensure that
the variable should be initialized before any use of it.

This commit also moves the code to initialize "waitStart" variable for
prepare transaction, from TwoPhaseGetDummyProc() to MarkAsPreparingGuts().
Because MarkAsPreparingGuts() is more proper place to do that since
it initializes other PGPROC variables.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Atsushi Torikoshi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1df88660-6f08-cc6e-b7e2-f85296a2bdab@oss.nttdata.com
2021-02-22 18:25:00 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 0e392fcc0d Use errmsg_internal for debug messages
An inconsistent set of debug-level messages was not using
errmsg_internal(), thus uselessly exposing the messages to translation
work.  Fix those.
2021-02-17 11:33:25 +01:00
Fujii Masao 46d6e5f567 Display the time when the process started waiting for the lock, in pg_locks, take 2
This commit adds new column "waitstart" into pg_locks view. This column
reports the time when the server process started waiting for the lock
if the lock is not held. This information is useful, for example, when
examining the amount of time to wait on a lock by subtracting
"waitstart" in pg_locks from the current time, and identify the lock
that the processes are waiting for very long.

This feature uses the current time obtained for the deadlock timeout
timer as "waitstart" (i.e., the time when this process started waiting
for the lock). Since getting the current time newly can cause overhead,
we reuse the already-obtained time to avoid that overhead.

Note that "waitstart" is updated without holding the lock table's
partition lock, to avoid the overhead by additional lock acquisition.
This can cause "waitstart" in pg_locks to become NULL for a very short
period of time after the wait started even though "granted" is false.
This is OK in practice because we can assume that users are likely to
look at "waitstart" when waiting for the lock for a long time.

The first attempt of this patch (commit 3b733fcd04) caused the buildfarm
member "rorqual" (built with --disable-atomics --disable-spinlocks) to report
the failure of the regression test. It was reverted by commit 890d2182a2.
The cause of this failure was that the atomic variable for "waitstart"
in the dummy process entry created at the end of prepare transaction was
not initialized. This second attempt fixes that issue.

Bump catalog version.

Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Reviewed-by: Ian Lawrence Barwick, Robert Haas, Justin Pryzby, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a96013dc51cdc56b2a2b84fa8a16a993@oss.nttdata.com
2021-02-15 15:13:37 +09:00
Thomas Munro 637668fb1d Hold interrupts while running dsm_detach() callbacks.
While cleaning up after a parallel query or parallel index creation that
created temporary files, we could be interrupted by a statement timeout.
The error handling path would then fail to clean up the files when it
ran dsm_detach() again, because the callback was already popped off the
list.  Prevent this hazard by holding interrupts while the cleanup code
runs.

Thanks to Heikki Linnakangas for this suggestion, and also to Kyotaro
Horiguchi, Masahiko Sawada, Justin Pryzby and Tom Lane for discussion of
this and earlier ideas on how to fix the problem.

Back-patch to all supported releases.

Reported-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191212180506.GR2082@telsasoft.com
2021-02-15 14:27:33 +13:00
Fujii Masao 890d2182a2 Revert "Display the time when the process started waiting for the lock, in pg_locks."
This reverts commit 3b733fcd04.

Per buildfarm members prion and rorqual.
2021-02-09 18:30:40 +09:00
Fujii Masao 3b733fcd04 Display the time when the process started waiting for the lock, in pg_locks.
This commit adds new column "waitstart" into pg_locks view. This column
reports the time when the server process started waiting for the lock
if the lock is not held. This information is useful, for example, when
examining the amount of time to wait on a lock by subtracting
"waitstart" in pg_locks from the current time, and identify the lock
that the processes are waiting for very long.

This feature uses the current time obtained for the deadlock timeout
timer as "waitstart" (i.e., the time when this process started waiting
for the lock). Since getting the current time newly can cause overhead,
we reuse the already-obtained time to avoid that overhead.

Note that "waitstart" is updated without holding the lock table's
partition lock, to avoid the overhead by additional lock acquisition.
This can cause "waitstart" in pg_locks to become NULL for a very short
period of time after the wait started even though "granted" is false.
This is OK in practice because we can assume that users are likely to
look at "waitstart" when waiting for the lock for a long time.

Bump catalog version.

Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Reviewed-by: Ian Lawrence Barwick, Robert Haas, Justin Pryzby, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a96013dc51cdc56b2a2b84fa8a16a993@oss.nttdata.com
2021-02-09 18:10:19 +09:00
Peter Geoghegan 617fffee8a Rename removable xid function for consistency.
GlobalVisIsRemovableFullXid() is now GlobalVisCheckRemovableFullXid().
This is consistent with the general convention for FullTransactionId
equivalents of functions that deal with TransactionId values.  It now
matches the nearby GlobalVisCheckRemovableXid() function, which performs
the same check for callers that use TransactionId values.

Oversight in commit dc7420c2c9.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzmes12jFNDcVgpU89Vp=r6uLFrE-MT0fjSWGsE70UiNaA@mail.gmail.com
2021-02-07 10:11:14 -08:00
Noah Misch 8a54e12a38 Fix CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY for simultaneous prepared transactions.
In a cluster having used CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY while having enabled
prepared transactions, queries that use the resulting index can silently
fail to find rows.  Fix this for future CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY by
making it wait for prepared transactions like it waits for ordinary
transactions.  This expands the VirtualTransactionId structure domain to
admit prepared transactions.  It may be necessary to reindex to recover
from past occurrences.  Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions).

Andrey Borodin, reviewed (in earlier versions) by Tom Lane and Michael
Paquier.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2E712143-97F7-4890-B470-4A35142ABC82@yandex-team.ru
2021-01-30 00:00:27 -08:00
Robert Haas d18e75664a Remove CheckpointLock.
Up until now, we've held this lock when performing a checkpoint or
restartpoint, but commit 076a055acf back
in 2004 and commit 7e48b77b1c from 2009,
taken together, have removed all need for this. In the present code,
there's only ever one process entitled to attempt a checkpoint: either
the checkpointer, during normal operation, or the postmaster, during
single-user operation. So, we don't need the lock.

One possible concern in making this change is that it means that
a substantial amount of code where HOLD_INTERRUPTS() was previously
in effect due to the preceding LWLockAcquire() will now be
running without that. This could mean that ProcessInterrupts()
gets called in places from which it didn't before. However, this
seems unlikely to do very much, because the checkpointer doesn't
have any signal mapped to die(), so it's not clear how,
for example, ProcDiePending = true could happen in the first
place. Similarly with ClientConnectionLost and recovery conflicts.

Also, if there are any such problems, we might want to fix them
rather than reverting this, since running lots of code with
interrupt handling suspended is generally bad.

Patch by me, per an inquiry by Amul Sul. Review by Tom Lane
and Michael Paquier.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b97XnBBfYeSREDJorFsyoD1sHgqnNuCi=02mNQBUMnA=FA@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-25 12:34:38 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 09418bed67 Remove bogus tracepoint
Calls to LWLockWaitForVar() fired the TRACE_POSTGRESQL_LWLOCK_ACQUIRE
tracepoint, but LWLockWaitForVar() never actually acquires the LWLock.
(Probably a copy/paste bug in 68a2e52bbaf.)  Remove it.

Author: Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAGRY4nxJo+-HCC2i5H93ttSZ4gZO-FSddCwvkb-qAfQ1zdXd1w@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-22 11:58:21 +01:00
Robert Haas a3ed4d1efe Allow for error or refusal while absorbing a ProcSignalBarrier.
Previously, the per-barrier-type functions tasked with absorbing
them were expected to always succeed and never throw an error.
However, that's a bit inconvenient. Further study has revealed that
there are realistic cases where it might not be possible to absorb
a ProcSignalBarrier without terminating the transaction, or even
the whole backend. Similarly, for some barrier types, there might
be other reasons where it's not reasonably possible to absorb the
barrier at certain points in the code, so provide a way for a
per-barrier-type function to reject absorbing the barrier.

Unfortunately, there's still no committed code making use of this
infrastructure; hopefully, we'll get there. :-(

Patch by me, reviewed by Andres Freund and Amul Sul.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20200908182005.xya7wetdh3pndzim@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmob56Pk1-5aTJdVPCWFHon7me4M96ENpGe9n_R4JUjjhZA@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-18 12:09:52 -05:00
Noah Misch 6db992833c Prevent excess SimpleLruTruncate() deletion.
Every core SLRU wraps around.  With the exception of pg_notify, the wrap
point can fall in the middle of a page.  Account for this in the
PagePrecedes callback specification and in SimpleLruTruncate()'s use of
said callback.  Update each callback implementation to fit the new
specification.  This changes SerialPagePrecedesLogically() from the
style of asyncQueuePagePrecedes() to the style of CLOGPagePrecedes().
(Whereas pg_clog and pg_serial share a key space, pg_serial is nothing
like pg_notify.)  The bug fixed here has the same symptoms and user
followup steps as 592a589a04.  Back-patch
to 9.5 (all supported versions).

Reviewed by Andrey Borodin and (in earlier versions) by Tom Lane.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190202083822.GC32531@gust.leadboat.com
2021-01-16 12:21:35 -08:00
Fujii Masao 2ad78a87f0 Fix calculation of how much shared memory is required to store a TOC.
Commit ac883ac453 refactored shm_toc_estimate() but changed its calculation
of shared memory size for TOC incorrectly. Previously this could cause too
large memory to be allocated.

Back-patch to v11 where the bug was introduced.

Author: Takayuki Tsunakawa
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB2990BFB73170E2C4921E2C4DFEA80@TYAPR01MB2990.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2021-01-15 12:44:17 +09:00
Thomas Munro 0d56acfbaa Move our p{read,write}v replacements into their own files.
macOS's ranlib issued a warning about an empty pread.o file with the
previous arrangement, on systems new enough to require no replacement
functions.  Let's go back to using configure's AC_REPLACE_FUNCS system
to build and include each .o in the library only if it's needed, which
requires moving the *v() functions to their own files.

Also move the _with_retry() wrapper to a more permanent home.

Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1283127.1610554395%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-01-14 11:16:59 +13:00
Fujii Masao 39b03690b5 Log long wait time on recovery conflict when it's resolved.
This is a follow-up of the work done in commit 0650ff2303. This commit
extends log_recovery_conflict_waits so that a log message is produced
also when recovery conflict has already been resolved after deadlock_timeout
passes, i.e., when the startup process finishes waiting for recovery
conflict after deadlock_timeout. This is useful in investigating how long
recovery conflicts prevented the recovery from applying WAL.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Bertrand Drouvot
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9a60178c-a853-1440-2cdc-c3af916cff59@amazon.com
2021-01-13 22:59:17 +09:00
Amit Kapila bea449c635 Optimize DropRelFileNodesAllBuffers() for recovery.
Similar to commit d6ad34f341, this patch optimizes
DropRelFileNodesAllBuffers() by avoiding the complete buffer pool scan and
instead find the buffers to be invalidated by doing lookups in the
BufMapping table.

This optimization helps operations where the relation files need to be
removed like Truncate, Drop, Abort of Create Table, etc.

Author: Kirk Jamison
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Takayuki Tsunakawa, and Amit Kapila
Tested-By: Haiying Tang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSBPR01MB3207DCA7EC725FDD661B3EDAEF660@OSBPR01MB3207.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2021-01-13 07:46:11 +05:30
Amit Kapila d6ad34f341 Optimize DropRelFileNodeBuffers() for recovery.
The recovery path of DropRelFileNodeBuffers() is optimized so that
scanning of the whole buffer pool can be avoided when the number of
blocks to be truncated in a relation is below a certain threshold. For
such cases, we find the buffers by doing lookups in BufMapping table.
This improves the performance by more than 100 times in many cases
when several small tables (tested with 1000 relations) are truncated
and where the server is configured with a large value of shared
buffers (greater than equal to 100GB).

This optimization helps cases (a) when vacuum or autovacuum truncated off
any of the empty pages at the end of a relation, or (b) when the relation is
truncated in the same transaction in which it was created.

This commit introduces a new API smgrnblocks_cached which returns a cached
value for the number of blocks in a relation fork. This helps us to determine
the exact size of relation which is required to apply this optimization. The
exact size is required to ensure that we don't leave any buffer for the
relation being dropped as otherwise the background writer or checkpointer
can lead to a PANIC error while flushing buffers corresponding to files that
don't exist.

Author: Kirk Jamison based on ideas by Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Takayuki Tsunakawa, and Amit Kapila
Tested-By: Haiying Tang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSBPR01MB3207DCA7EC725FDD661B3EDAEF660@OSBPR01MB3207.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2021-01-12 07:45:40 +05:30
Fujii Masao 0650ff2303 Add GUC to log long wait times on recovery conflicts.
This commit adds GUC log_recovery_conflict_waits that controls whether
a log message is produced when the startup process is waiting longer than
deadlock_timeout for recovery conflicts. This is useful in determining
if recovery conflicts prevent the recovery from applying WAL.

Note that currently a log message is produced only when recovery conflict
has not been resolved yet even after deadlock_timeout passes, i.e.,
only when the startup process is still waiting for recovery conflict
even after deadlock_timeout.

Author: Bertrand Drouvot, Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9a60178c-a853-1440-2cdc-c3af916cff59@amazon.com
2021-01-08 00:47:03 +09:00
Tom Lane 9877374bef Add idle_session_timeout.
This GUC variable works much like idle_in_transaction_session_timeout,
in that it kills sessions that have waited too long for a new client
query.  But it applies when we're not in a transaction, rather than
when we are.

Li Japin, reviewed by David Johnston and Hayato Kuroda, some
fixes by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/763A0689-F189-459E-946F-F0EC4458980B@hotmail.com
2021-01-06 18:28:52 -05:00
Fujii Masao 8900b5a9d5 Detect the deadlocks between backends and the startup process.
The deadlocks that the recovery conflict on lock is involved in can
happen between hot-standby backends and the startup process.
If a backend takes an access exclusive lock on the table and which
finally triggers the deadlock, that deadlock can be detected
as expected. On the other hand, previously, if the startup process
took an access exclusive lock and which finally triggered the deadlock,
that deadlock could not be detected and could remain even after
deadlock_timeout passed. This is a bug.

The cause of this bug was that the code for handling the recovery
conflict on lock didn't take care of deadlock case at all. It assumed
that deadlocks involving the startup process and backends were able
to be detected by the deadlock detector invoked within backends.
But this assumption was incorrect. The startup process also should
have invoked the deadlock detector if necessary.

To fix this bug, this commit makes the startup process invoke
the deadlock detector if deadlock_timeout is reached while handling
the recovery conflict on lock. Specifically, in that case, the startup
process requests all the backends holding the conflicting locks to
check themselves for deadlocks.

Back-patch to v9.6. v9.5 has also this bug, but per discussion we decided
not to back-patch the fix to v9.5. Because v9.5 doesn't have some
infrastructure codes (e.g., 37c54863cf) that this bug fix patch depends on.
We can apply those codes for the back-patch, but since the next minor
version release is the final one for v9.5, it's risky to do that. If we
unexpectedly introduce new bug to v9.5 by the back-patch, there is no
chance to fix that. We determined that the back-patch to v9.5 would give
more risk than gain.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Masahiko Sawada, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4041d6b6-cf24-a120-36fa-1294220f8243@oss.nttdata.com
2021-01-06 12:39:18 +09:00
Bruce Momjian ca3b37487b Update copyright for 2021
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
Peter Geoghegan 4228817449 Fix index deletion latestRemovedXid bug.
The logic for determining the latest removed XID for the purposes of
generating recovery conflicts in REDO routines was subtly broken.  It
failed to follow links from HOT chains, and so failed to consider all
relevant heap tuple headers in some cases.

To fix, expand the loop that deals with LP_REDIRECT line pointers to
also deal with HOT chains.  The new version of the loop is loosely based
on a similar loop from heap_prune_chain().

The impact of this bug is probably quite limited, since the horizon code
necessarily deals with heap tuples that are pointed to by LP_DEAD-set
index tuples.  The process of setting LP_DEAD index tuples (e.g. within
the kill_prior_tuple mechanism) is highly correlated with opportunistic
pruning of pointed-to heap tuples.  Plus the question of generating a
recovery conflict usually comes up some time after index tuple LP_DEAD
bits were initially set, unlike heap pruning, where a latestRemovedXid
is generated at the point of the pruning operation (heap pruning has no
deferred "would-be page split" style processing that produces conflicts
lazily).

Only backpatch to Postgres 12, the first version where this logic runs
during original execution (following commit 558a9165e0).  The index
latestRemovedXid mechanism has had the same bug since it first appeared
over 10 years ago (in commit a760893d), but backpatching to all
supported versions now seems like a bad idea on balance.  Running the
new improved code during recovery seems risky, especially given the lack
of complaints from the field.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=Eib393+HHcERK_9MtgNS7Ew1HY=RDC_g6GL46zM5C6Q@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 12-
2020-12-30 16:29:05 -08:00
Bruce Momjian 3187ef7c46 Revert "Add key management system" (978f869b99) & later commits
The patch needs test cases, reorganization, and cfbot testing.
Technically reverts commits 5c31afc49d..e35b2bad1a (exclusive/inclusive)
and 08db7c63f3..ccbe34139b.

Reported-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1ktAAG-0002V2-VB@gemulon.postgresql.org
2020-12-27 21:37:42 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 978f869b99 Add key management system
This adds a key management system that stores (currently) two data
encryption keys of length 128, 192, or 256 bits.  The data keys are
AES256 encrypted using a key encryption key, and validated via GCM
cipher mode.  A command to obtain the key encryption key must be
specified at initdb time, and will be run at every database server
start.  New parameters allow a file descriptor open to the terminal to
be passed.  pg_upgrade support has also been added.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k7q5o6Nc_AaX6BcYM9yqTbC6_pnH-6nSD=54Zp6NBQTCQ@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201202213814.GG20285@momjian.us

Author: Masahiko Sawada, me, Stephen Frost
2020-12-25 10:19:44 -05:00
Tom Lane 7e784d1dc1 Improve client error messages for immediate-stop situations.
Up to now, if the DBA issued "pg_ctl stop -m immediate", the message
sent to clients was the same as for a crash-and-restart situation.
This is confusing, not least because the message claims that the
database will soon be up again, something we have no business
predicting.

Improve things so that we can generate distinct messages for the two
cases (and also recognize an ad-hoc SIGQUIT, should somebody try that).
To do that, add a field to pmsignal.c's shared memory data structure
that the postmaster sets just before broadcasting SIGQUIT to its
children.  No interlocking seems to be necessary; the intervening
signal-sending and signal-receipt should sufficiently serialize accesses
to the field.  Hence, this isn't any riskier than the existing usages
of pmsignal.c.

We might in future extend this idea to improve other
postmaster-to-children signal scenarios, although none of them
currently seem to be as badly overloaded as SIGQUIT.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/559291.1608587013@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-12-24 12:58:32 -05:00
Fujii Masao 00f690a239 Revert "Get rid of the dedicated latch for signaling the startup process".
Revert ac22929a26, as well as the followup fix 113d3591b8. Because it broke
the assumption that the startup process waiting for the recovery conflict
on buffer pin should be waken up only by buffer unpin or the timeout enabled
in ResolveRecoveryConflictWithBufferPin(). It caused, for example,
SIGHUP signal handler or walreceiver process to wake that startup process
up unnecessarily frequently.

Additionally, add the comments about why that dedicated latch that
the reverted patch tried to get rid of should not be removed.

Thanks to Kyotaro Horiguchi for the discussion.

Author: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d8c0c608-021b-3c73-fffd-3240829ee986@oss.nttdata.com
2020-12-17 18:06:51 +09:00
Tom Lane b3817f5f77 Improve hash_create()'s API for some added robustness.
Invent a new flag bit HASH_STRINGS to specify C-string hashing, which
was formerly the default; and add assertions insisting that exactly
one of the bits HASH_STRINGS, HASH_BLOBS, and HASH_FUNCTION be set.
This is in hopes of preventing recurrences of the type of oversight
fixed in commit a1b8aa1e4 (i.e., mistakenly omitting HASH_BLOBS).

Also, when HASH_STRINGS is specified, insist that the keysize be
more than 8 bytes.  This is a heuristic, but it should catch
accidental use of HASH_STRINGS for integer or pointer keys.
(Nearly all existing use-cases set the keysize to NAMEDATALEN or
more, so there's little reason to think this restriction should
be problematic.)

Tweak hash_create() to insist that the HASH_ELEM flag be set, and
remove the defaults it had for keysize and entrysize.  Since those
defaults were undocumented and basically useless, no callers
omitted HASH_ELEM anyway.

Also, remove memset's zeroing the HASHCTL parameter struct from
those callers that had one.  This has never been really necessary,
and while it wasn't a bad coding convention it was confusing that
some callers did it and some did not.  We might as well save a few
cycles by standardizing on "not".

Also improve the documentation for hash_create().

In passing, improve reinit.c's usage of a hash table by storing
the key as a binary Oid rather than a string; and, since that's
a temporary hash table, allocate it in CurrentMemoryContext for
neatness.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/590625.1607878171@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-12-15 11:38:53 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut eb93f3a0b6 Convert elog(LOG) calls to ereport() where appropriate
User-visible log messages should go through ereport(), so they are
subject to translation.  Many remaining elog(LOG) calls are really
debugging calls.

Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/92d6f545-5102-65d8-3c87-489f71ea0a37%40enterprisedb.com
2020-12-04 14:25:23 +01:00
Thomas Munro 57faaf376e Use truncate(2) where appropriate.
When truncating files by name, use truncate(2).  Windows hasn't got it,
so keep our previous coding based on ftruncate(2) as a fallback.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16663-fe97ccf9932fc800%40postgresql.org
2020-12-01 15:42:22 +13:00
Thomas Munro 9f35f94373 Free disk space for dropped relations on commit.
When committing a transaction that dropped a relation, we previously
truncated only the first segment file to free up disk space (the one
that won't be unlinked until the next checkpoint).

Truncate higher numbered segments too, even though we unlink them on
commit.  This frees the disk space immediately, even if other backends
have open file descriptors and might take a long time to get around to
handling shared invalidation events and closing them.  Also extend the
same behavior to the first segment, in recovery.

Back-patch to all supported releases.

Bug: #16663
Reported-by: Denis Patron <denis.patron@previnet.it>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Neil Chen <carpenter.nail.cz@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Zhang <david.zhang@highgo.ca>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16663-fe97ccf9932fc800%40postgresql.org
2020-12-01 13:21:03 +13:00
Alvaro Herrera dcfff74fb1
Restore lock level to update statusFlags
Reverts 27838981be (some comments are kept).  Per discussion, it does
not seem safe to relax the lock level used for this; in order for it to
be safe, there would have to be memory barriers between the point we set
the flag and the point we set the trasaction Xid, which perhaps would
not be so bad; but there would also have to be barriers at the readers'
side, which from a performance perspective might be bad.

Now maybe this analysis is wrong and it *is* safe for some reason, but
proof of that is not trivial.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201118190928.vnztes7c2sldu43a@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-11-26 12:30:48 -03:00
Thomas Munro a7e65dc88b Fix WaitLatch(NULL) on Windows.
Further to commit 733fa9aa, on Windows when a latch is triggered but we
aren't currently waiting for it, we need to locate the latch's HANDLE
rather than calling ResetEvent(NULL).

Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQArTPi1YBc%2Bn1fo0Asy3QBFhVjp_QgyKG-8yksVn%2ByRTiw%40mail.gmail.com
2020-11-25 17:55:49 +13:00
Michael Paquier d03d7549b2 Use macros instead of hardcoded offsets for LWLock initialization
This makes the code slightly easier to follow, as the initialization
relies on an offset that overlapped with an equivalent set of macros
defined, which are used in other places already.

Author: Japin Li
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/MEYP282MB1669FB410006758402F2C3A2B6E00@MEYP282MB1669.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2020-11-24 12:39:58 +09:00
Tom Lane 789b938bf2 Centralize logic for skipping useless ereport/elog calls.
While ereport() and elog() themselves are quite cheap when the
error message level is too low to be printed, some places need to do
substantial work before they can call those macros at all.  To allow
optimizing away such setup work when nothing is to be printed, make
elog.c export a new function message_level_is_interesting(elevel)
that reports whether ereport/elog will do anything.  Make use of that
in various places that had ad-hoc direct tests of log_min_messages etc.
Also teach ProcSleep to use it to avoid some work.  (There may well
be other places that could usefully use this; I didn't search hard.)

Within elog.c, refactor a little bit to avoid having duplicate copies
of the policy-setting logic.  When that code was written, we weren't
relying on the availability of inline functions; so it had some
duplications in the name of efficiency, which I got rid of.

Alvaro Herrera and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/129515.1606166429@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-11-23 19:10:46 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 450c8230b1
Don't hold ProcArrayLock longer than needed in rare cases
While cancelling an autovacuum worker, we hold ProcArrayLock while
formatting a debugging log string.  We can make this shorter by saving
the data we need to produce the message and doing the formatting outside
the locked region.

This isn't terribly critical, as it only occurs pretty rarely: when a
backend runs deadlock detection and it happens to be blocked by a
autovacuum running autovacuum.  Still, there's no need to cause a hiccup
in ProcArrayLock processing, which can be very high-traffic in some
cases.

While at it, rework code so that we only print the string when it is
really going to be used, as suggested by Michael Paquier.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201118214127.GA3179@alvherre.pgsql
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
2020-11-23 18:55:23 -03:00
Thomas Munro 7888b09994 Add BarrierArriveAndDetachExceptLast().
Provide a way for one process to continue the remaining phases of a
(previously) parallel computation alone.  Later patches will use this to
extend Parallel Hash Join.

Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BA6ftXPz4oe92%2Bx8Er%2BxpGZqto70-Q_ERwRaSyA%3DafNg%40mail.gmail.com
2020-11-19 18:13:46 +13:00
Alvaro Herrera 27838981be
Relax lock level for setting PGPROC->statusFlags
We don't actually need a lock to set PGPROC->statusFlags itself; what we
do need is a shared lock on either XidGenLock or ProcArrayLock in order to
ensure MyProc->pgxactoff keeps still while we modify the mirror array in
ProcGlobal->statusFlags.  Some places were using an exclusive lock for
that, which is excessive.  Relax those to use shared lock only.

procarray.c has a couple of places with somewhat brittle assumptions
about PGPROC changes: ProcArrayEndTransaction uses only shared lock, so
it's permissible to change MyProc only.  On the other hand,
ProcArrayEndTransactionInternal also changes other procs, so it must
hold exclusive lock.  Add asserts to ensure those assumptions continue
to hold.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201117155501.GA13805@alvherre.pgsql
2020-11-18 13:24:22 -03:00
Tom Lane 2bd49b493a Don't Insert() a VFD entry until it's fully built.
Otherwise, if FDDEBUG is enabled, the debugging output fails because
it tries to read the fileName, which isn't set up yet (and should in
fact always be NULL).

AFAICT, this has been wrong since Berkeley.  Before 96bf88d52,
it would accidentally fail to crash on platforms where snprintf()
is forgiving about being passed a NULL pointer for %s; but the
file name intended to be included in the debug output wouldn't
ever have shown up.

Report and fix by Greg Nancarrow.  Although this is only visibly
broken in custom-made builds, it still seems worth back-patching
to all supported branches, as the FDDEBUG code is pretty useless
as it stands.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-cUDgm9qYtC_B6XrC6MktMPNRby2p61EtSGZKnfotMArw@mail.gmail.com
2020-11-16 20:32:55 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera cd9c1b3e19
Rename PGPROC->vacuumFlags to statusFlags
With more flags associated to a PGPROC entry that are not related to
vacuum (currently existing or planned), the name "statusFlags" describes
its purpose better.

(The same is done to the mirroring PROC_HDR->vacuumFlags.)

No functional changes in this commit.

This was suggested first by Hari Babu Kommi in [1] and then by Michael
Paquier at [2].

[1] https://postgr.es/m/CAJrrPGcsDC-oy1AhqH0JkXYa0Z2AgbuXzHPpByLoBGMxfOZMEQ@mail.gmail.com
[2] https://postgr.es/m/20200820060929.GB3730@paquier.xyz

Author: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201116182446.qcg3o6szo2zookyr@localhost
2020-11-16 19:42:55 -03:00
Michael Paquier 788dd0b839 Fix some typos
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/C36ADFDF-D09A-4EE5-B186-CB46C3653F4C@yesql.se
2020-11-14 11:43:10 +09:00
Michael Paquier e152506ade Revert pg_relation_check_pages()
This reverts the following set of commits, following complaints about
the lack of portability of the central part of the code in bufmgr.c as
well as the use of partition mapping locks during page reads:
c780a7a9
f2b88396
b787d4ce
ce7f772c
60a51c6b

Per discussion with Andres Freund, Robert Haas and myself.

Bump catalog version.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201029181729.2nrub47u7yqncsv7@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-11-04 10:21:46 +09:00
Amit Kapila 8c2d8f6cc4 Fix typos.
Author: Hou Zhijie
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/855a9421839d402b8b351d273c89a8f8@G08CNEXMBPEKD05.g08.fujitsu.local
2020-11-03 08:38:27 +05:30
Michael Paquier 8a15e735be Fix some grammar and typos in comments and docs
The documentation fixes are backpatched down to where they apply.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201031020801.GD3080@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2020-11-02 15:14:41 +09:00
Andres Freund 1c7675a7a4 Fix wrong data table horizon computation during backend startup.
When ComputeXidHorizons() was called before MyDatabaseOid is set,
e.g. because a dead row in a shared relation is encountered during
InitPostgres(), the horizon for normal tables was computed too
aggressively, ignoring all backends connected to a database.

During subsequent pruning in a data table the too aggressive horizon
could end up still being used, possibly leading to still needed tuples
being removed. Not good.

This is a bug in dc7420c2c9, which the test added in 94bc27b576 made
visible, if run with force_parallel_mode set to regress. In that case
the bug is reliably triggered, because "pruning_query" is run in a
parallel worker and the start of that parallel worker is likely to
encounter a dead row in pg_database.

The fix is trivial: Compute a more pessimistic data table horizon if
MyDatabaseId is not yet known.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201029040030.p4osrmaywhqaesd4@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-10-28 21:49:07 -07:00
Andres Freund 94bc27b576 Centralize horizon determination for temp tables, fixing bug due to skew.
This fixes a bug in the edge case where, for a temp table, heap_page_prune()
can end up with a different horizon than heap_vacuum_rel(). Which can trigger
errors like "ERROR: cannot freeze committed xmax ...".

The bug was introduced due to interaction of a7212be8b9 "Set cutoff xmin more
aggressively when vacuuming a temporary table." with dc7420c2c9 "snapshot
scalability: Don't compute global horizons while building snapshots.".

The problem is caused by lazy_scan_heap() assuming that the only reason its
HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum() call would return HEAPTUPLE_DEAD is if the tuple is
a HOT tuple, or if the tuple's inserting transaction has aborted since the
heap_page_prune() call. But after a7212be8b9 that was also possible in other
cases for temp tables, because heap_page_prune() uses a different visibility
test after dc7420c2c9.

The fix is fairly simple: Move the special case logic for temp tables from
vacuum_set_xid_limits() to the infrastructure introduced in dc7420c2c9. That
ensures that the horizon used for pruning is at least as aggressive as the one
used by lazy_scan_heap(). The concrete horizon used for temp tables is
slightly different than the logic in dc7420c2c9, but should always be as
aggressive as before (see comments).

A significant benefit to centralizing the logic procarray.c is that now the
more aggressive horizons for temp tables does not just apply to VACUUM but
also to e.g. HOT pruning and the nbtree killtuples logic.

Because isTopLevel is not needed by vacuum_set_xid_limits() anymore, I
undid the the related changes from a7212be8b9.

This commit also adds an isolation test ensuring that the more aggressive
vacuuming and pruning of temp tables keeps working.

Debugged-By: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Debugged-By: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Debugged-By: Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201014203103.72oke6hqywcyhx7s@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201015083735.derdzysdtqdvxshp@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-10-28 18:02:31 -07:00
Michael Paquier c780a7a90a Add CheckBuffer() to check on-disk pages without shared buffer loading
CheckBuffer() is designed to be a concurrent-safe function able to run
sanity checks on a relation page without loading it into the shared
buffers.  The operation is done using a lock on the partition involved
in the shared buffer mapping hashtable and an I/O lock for the buffer
itself, preventing the risk of false positives due to any concurrent
activity.

The primary use of this function is the detection of on-disk corruptions
for relation pages.  If a page is found in shared buffers, the on-disk
page is checked if not dirty (a follow-up checkpoint would flush a valid
version of the page if dirty anyway), as it could be possible that a
page was present for a long time in shared buffers with its on-disk
version corrupted.  Such a scenario could lead to a corrupted cluster if
a host is plugged off for example.  If the page is not found in shared
buffers, its on-disk state is checked.  PageIsVerifiedExtended() is used
to apply the same sanity checks as when a page gets loaded into shared
buffers.

This function will be used by an upcoming patch able to check the state
of on-disk relation pages using a SQL function.

Author: Julien Rouhaud, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by:  Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOBaU_aVvMjQn=ge5qPiJOPMmOj5=ii3st5Q0Y+WuLML5sR17w@mail.gmail.com
2020-10-28 11:12:46 +09:00
Michael Paquier d401c5769e Extend PageIsVerified() to handle more custom options
This is useful for checks of relation pages without having to load the
pages into the shared buffers, and two cases can make use of that: page
verification in base backups and the online, lock-safe, flavor.

Compatibility is kept with past versions using a macro that calls the
new extended routine with the set of options compatible with the
original version.

Extracted from a larger patch by the same author.

Author: Anastasia Lubennikova
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/608f3476-0598-2514-2c03-e05c7d2b0cbd@postgrespro.ru
2020-10-26 09:55:28 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 26ec6b5948 Avoid invalid alloc size error in shm_mq
In shm_mq_receive(), a huge payload could trigger an unjustified
"invalid memory alloc request size" error due to the way the buffer
size is increased.

Add error checks (documenting the upper limit) and avoid the error by
limiting the allocation size to MaxAllocSize.

Author: Markus Wanner <markus.wanner@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/3bb363e7-ac04-0ac4-9fe8-db1148755bfa%402ndquadrant.com
2020-10-19 08:52:25 +02:00
Thomas Munro 70516a178a Handle EACCES errors from kevent() better.
While registering for postmaster exit events, we have to handle a couple
of edge cases where the postmaster is already gone.  Commit 815c2f09
missed one: EACCES must surely imply that PostmasterPid no longer
belongs to our postmaster process (or alternatively an unexpected
permissions model has been imposed on us).  Like ESRCH, this should be
treated as a WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH event, rather than being raised with
ereport().

No known problems reported in the wild.  Per code review from Tom Lane.
Back-patch to 13.

Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3624029.1602701929%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-10-15 18:34:21 +13:00
Thomas Munro b94109ce37 Make WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH level-triggered on kqueue builds.
If WaitEventSetWait() reports that the postmaster has gone away, later
calls to WaitEventSetWait() should continue to report that.  Otherwise
further waits that occur in the proc_exit() path after we already
noticed the postmaster's demise could block forever.

Back-patch to 13, where the kqueue support landed.

Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3624029.1602701929%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-10-15 11:41:58 +13:00
Andres Freund 7b28913bca Fix and test snapshot behavior on standby.
I (Andres) broke this in 623a9CA79bx, because I didn't think about the
way snapshots are built on standbys sufficiently. Unfortunately our
existing tests did not catch this, as they are all just querying with
psql (therefore ending up with fresh snapshots).

The fix is trivial, we just need to increment the transaction
completion counter in ExpireTreeKnownAssignedTransactionIds(), which
is the equivalent of ProcArrayEndTransaction() during recovery.

This commit also adds a new test doing some basic testing of the
correctness of snapshots built on standbys. To avoid the
aforementioned issue of one-shot psql's not exercising the snapshot
caching, the test uses a long lived psqls, similar to
013_crash_restart.pl. It'd be good to extend the test further.

Reported-By: Ian Barwick <ian.barwick@2ndquadrant.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Ian Barwick <ian.barwick@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/61291ffe-d611-f889-68b5-c298da9fb18f@2ndquadrant.com
2020-09-30 17:28:51 -07:00
Thomas Munro dee663f784 Defer flushing of SLRU files.
Previously, we called fsync() after writing out individual pg_xact,
pg_multixact and pg_commit_ts pages due to cache pressure, leading to
regular I/O stalls in user backends and recovery.  Collapse requests for
the same file into a single system call as part of the next checkpoint,
as we already did for relation files, using the infrastructure developed
by commit 3eb77eba.  This can cause a significant improvement to
recovery performance, especially when it's otherwise CPU-bound.

Hoist ProcessSyncRequests() up into CheckPointGuts() to make it clearer
that it applies to all the SLRU mini-buffer-pools as well as the main
buffer pool.  Rearrange things so that data collected in CheckpointStats
includes SLRU activity.

Also remove the Shutdown{CLOG,CommitTS,SUBTRANS,MultiXact}() functions,
because they were redundant after the shutdown checkpoint that
immediately precedes them.  (I'm not sure if they were ever needed, but
they aren't now.)

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> (parts)
Tested-by: Jakub Wartak <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGLJ=84YT+NvhkEEDAuUtVHMfQ9i-N7k_o50JmQ6Rpj_OQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-09-25 19:00:15 +12:00
Thomas Munro 733fa9aa51 Allow WaitLatch() to be used without a latch.
Due to flaws in commit 3347c982ba, using WaitLatch() without
WL_LATCH_SET could cause an assertion failure or crash.  Repair.

While here, also add a check that the latch we're switching to belongs
to this backend, when changing from one latch to another.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGK1607VmtrDUHQXrsooU%3Dap4g4R2yaoByWOOA3m8xevUQ%40mail.gmail.com
2020-09-23 15:17:30 +12:00
Peter Eisentraut 80fc96eceb Standardize order of use strict and use warnings in Perl code
The standard order in PostgreSQL and other code is use strict first,
but some code was uselessly inconsistent about this.
2020-09-21 17:04:36 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 3d13867a2c Fix whitespace 2020-09-20 14:42:54 +02:00
David Rowley 19c60ad69a Optimize compactify_tuples function
This function could often be seen in profiles of vacuum and could often
be a significant bottleneck during recovery. The problem was that a qsort
was performed in order to sort an array of item pointers in reverse offset
order so that we could use that to safely move tuples up to the end of the
page without overwriting the memory of yet-to-be-moved tuples. i.e. we
used to compact the page starting at the back of the page and move towards
the front. The qsort that this required could be expensive for pages with
a large number of tuples.

In this commit, we take another approach to tuple compactification.

Now, instead of sorting the remaining item pointers array we first check
if the array is presorted and only memmove() the tuples that need to be
moved. This presorted check can be done very cheaply in the calling
functions when the array is being populated. This presorted case is very
fast.

When the item pointer array is not presorted we must copy tuples that need
to be moved into a temp buffer before copying them back into the page
again. This differs from what we used to do here as we're now copying the
tuples back into the page in reverse line pointer order. Previously we
left the existing order alone.  Reordering the tuples results in an
increased likelihood of hitting the pre-sorted case the next time around.
Any newly added tuple which consumes a new line pointer will also maintain
the correct sort order of tuples in the page which will also result in the
presorted case being hit the next time.  Only consuming an unused line
pointer can cause the order of tuples to go out again, but that will be
corrected next time the function is called for the page.

Benchmarks have shown that the non-presorted case is at least equally as
fast as the original qsort method even when the page just has a few
tuples. As the number of tuples becomes larger the new method maintains
its performance whereas the original qsort method became much slower when
the number of tuples on the page became large.

Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro
Tested-by: Jakub Wartak
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGKMQFVpjr106gRhwk6R-nXv0qOcTreZuQzxgpHESAL6dw@mail.gmail.com
2020-09-16 13:22:20 +12:00
Fujii Masao 95233011a0 Fix typos.
Author: Naoki Nakamichi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b6919d145af00295a8e86ce4d034b7cd@oss.nttdata.com
2020-09-14 14:16:07 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 3e0242b24c Message fixes and style improvements 2020-09-14 06:42:30 +02:00
Tom Lane 6693a96b32 Don't run atexit callbacks during signal exits from ProcessStartupPacket.
Although 58c6feccf fixed the case for SIGQUIT, we were still calling
proc_exit() from signal handlers for SIGTERM and timeout failures in
ProcessStartupPacket.  Fortunately, at the point where that code runs,
we haven't yet connected to shared memory in any meaningful way, so
there is nothing we need to undo in shared memory.  This means it
should be safe to use _exit(1) here, ie, not run any atexit handlers
but also inform the postmaster that it's not a crash exit.

To make sure nobody breaks the "nothing to undo" expectation, add
a cross-check that no on-shmem-exit or before-shmem-exit handlers
have been registered yet when we finish using these signal handlers.

This change is simple enough that maybe it could be back-patched,
but I won't risk that right now.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1850884.1599601164@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-09-11 12:20:16 -04:00
Michael Paquier aad546bd0a doc: Fix some grammar and inconsistencies
Some comments are fixed while on it.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200818171702.GK17022@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2020-09-10 15:50:19 +09:00
Tom Lane c9ae5cbb88 Install an error check into cancel_before_shmem_exit().
Historically, cancel_before_shmem_exit() just silently did nothing
if the specified callback wasn't the top-of-stack.  The folly of
ignoring this case was exposed by the bugs fixed in 303640199 and
bab150045, so let's make it throw elog(ERROR) instead.

There is a decent argument to be made that PG_ENSURE_ERROR_CLEANUP
should use some separate infrastructure, so it wouldn't break if
something inside the guarded code decides to register a new
before_shmem_exit callback.  However, a survey of the surviving
uses of before_shmem_exit() and PG_ENSURE_ERROR_CLEANUP doesn't
show any plausible conflicts of that sort today, so for now we'll
forgo the extra complexity.  (It will almost certainly become
necessary if anyone ever wants to wrap PG_ENSURE_ERROR_CLEANUP
around arbitrary user-defined actions, though.)

No backpatch, since this is developer support not a production issue.

Bharath Rupireddy, per advice from Andres Freund, Robert Haas, and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACWk7j4F2v2fxxYfrroOF=AdFNPr1WsV+AGtHAFQOqm_pw@mail.gmail.com
2020-09-08 15:54:25 -04:00
Andres Freund 5871f09c98 Fix autovacuum cancellation.
The problem is caused by me (Andres) having ProcSleep() look at the
wrong PGPROC entry in 5788e258bb.

Unfortunately it seems hard to write a reliable test for autovacuum
cancellations. Perhaps somebody will come up with a good approach, but
it seems worth fixing the issue even without a test.

Reported-By: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
Author: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1wH2aUy+wDRDz+5RZALdcUnEofV1t9PzXS_gBJO9vZZ0Q@mail.gmail.com
2020-09-08 11:25:34 -07:00
Thomas Munro 861c6e7c8e Skip unnecessary stat() calls in walkdir().
Some kernels can tell us the type of a "dirent", so we can avoid a call
to stat() or lstat() in many cases.  Define a new function
get_dirent_type() to contain that logic, for use by the backend and
frontend versions of walkdir(), and perhaps other callers in future.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Juan José Santamaría Flecha <juanjo.santamaria@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BFzxupGGN4GpUdbzZN%2Btn6FQPHo8w0Q%2BAPH5Wz8RG%2Bww%40mail.gmail.com
2020-09-07 18:28:06 +12:00
Tom Lane 695de5d1ed Split Makefile symbol CFLAGS_VECTOR into two symbols.
Replace CFLAGS_VECTOR with CFLAGS_UNROLL_LOOPS and CFLAGS_VECTORIZE,
allowing us to distinguish whether we want to apply -funroll-loops,
-ftree-vectorize, or both to a particular source file.  Up to now
the only consumer of the symbol has been checksum.c which wants
both, so that there was no need to distinguish; but that's about
to change.

Amit Khandekar, reviewed and edited a little by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9evtA_vBo+WMYMyT-u=keHX7-r8p2w7OSRfXf42LTwCZQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-09-06 21:28:16 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 2a093355aa Fix typo in comment
Author: Hou, Zhijie
2020-09-06 19:26:55 +02:00
Tom Lane a5cc4dab6d Yet more elimination of dead stores and useless initializations.
I'm not sure what tool Ranier was using, but the ones I contributed
were found by using a newer version of scan-build than I tried before.

Ranier Vilela and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQAo1+AcGppxDSg8k+zF4+Kv+eJyqzEDdbpDg58-=MQcerQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-09-05 13:17:32 -04:00
Bruce Momjian e36e936e0e remove redundant initializations
Reported-by: Ranier Vilela

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQAo1+AcGppxDSg8k+zF4+Kv+eJyqzEDdbpDg58-=MQcerQ@mail.gmail.com

Author: Ranier Vilela

Backpatch-through: master
2020-09-03 22:57:35 -04:00
Amit Kapila 4ab77697f6 Fix the SharedFileSetUnregister API.
Commit 808e13b282 introduced a few APIs to extend the existing Buffile
interface. In SharedFileSetDeleteOnProcExit, it tries to delete the list
element while traversing the list with 'foreach' construct which makes the
behavior of list traversal unpredictable.

Author: Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar
Tested-by: Dilip Kumar and Neha Sharma
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1JhLatVcQ2OvwA_3s0ih6Hx9+kZbq107cXVsSWWukH7vA@mail.gmail.com
2020-09-01 08:11:39 +05:30
Michael Paquier 77c7267c37 Fix comment in procarray.c
The description of GlobalVisDataRels was missing, GlobalVisCatalogRels
being mentioned instead.

Author: Jim Nasby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8e06c883-2858-1fd4-07c5-560c28b08dcd@amazon.com
2020-08-27 16:40:34 +09:00
Tom Lane e942af7b82 Suppress compiler warning in non-cassert builds.
Oversight in 808e13b28, reported by Bruce Momjian.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200826160251.GB21909@momjian.us
2020-08-26 17:08:11 -04:00
Amit Kapila 808e13b282 Extend the BufFile interface.
Allow BufFile to support temporary files that can be used by the single
backend when the corresponding files need to be survived across the
transaction and need to be opened and closed multiple times. Such files
need to be created as a member of a SharedFileSet.

Additionally, this commit implements the interface for BufFileTruncate to
allow files to be truncated up to a particular offset and extends the
BufFileSeek API to support the SEEK_END case. This also adds an option to
provide a mode while opening the shared BufFiles instead of always opening
in read-only mode.

These enhancements in BufFile interface are required for the upcoming
patch to allow the replication apply worker, to handle streamed
in-progress transactions.

Author: Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Tested-by: Neha Sharma
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/688b0b7f-2f6c-d827-c27b-216a8e3ea700@2ndquadrant.com
2020-08-26 07:36:43 +05:30
Fujii Masao d259afa736 Fix typos in comments.
Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k4m9hFSrRLB3etPWO5_v5=MujVZWRtz63q+55hM0Dz25Q@mail.gmail.com
2020-08-21 12:35:22 +09:00
Andres Freund 1fe1f42e3e Acquire ProcArrayLock exclusively in ProcArrayClearTransaction.
This corrects an oversight by me in 2072932407, which made
ProcArrayClearTransaction() increment xactCompletionCount. That requires an
exclusive lock, obviously.

There's other approaches that avoid the exclusive acquisition, but given that a
2PC commit is fairly heavyweight, it doesn't seem worth doing so. I've not been
able to measure a performance difference, unsurprisingly.  I did add a
comment documenting that we could do so, should it ever become a bottleneck.

Reported-By: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1355915.1597794204@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-08-19 18:24:33 -07:00
Andres Freund 07f32fcd23 Fix race condition in snapshot caching when 2PC is used.
When preparing a transaction xactCompletionCount needs to be
incremented, even though the transaction has not committed
yet. Otherwise the snapshot used within the transaction otherwise can
get reused outside of the prepared transaction. As GetSnapshotData()
does not include the current xid when building a snapshot, reuse would
not be correct.

Somewhat surprisingly the regression tests only rarely show incorrect
results without the fix. The reason for that is that often the
snapshot's xmax will be >= the backend xid, yielding a snapshot that
is correct, despite the bug.

I'm working on a reliable test for the bug, but it seems worth seeing
whether this fixes all the BF failures while I do.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1k7tGP-0005V0-5k@gemulon.postgresql.org
2020-08-18 16:31:12 -07:00
Andres Freund 623a9ba79b snapshot scalability: cache snapshots using a xact completion counter.
Previous commits made it faster/more scalable to compute snapshots. But not
building a snapshot is still faster. Now that GetSnapshotData() does not
maintain RecentGlobal* anymore, that is actually not too hard:

This commit introduces xactCompletionCount, which tracks the number of
top-level transactions with xids (i.e. which may have modified the database)
that completed in some form since the start of the server.

We can avoid rebuilding the snapshot's contents whenever the current
xactCompletionCount is the same as it was when the snapshot was
originally built.  Currently this check happens while holding
ProcArrayLock. While it's likely possible to perform the check without
acquiring ProcArrayLock, it seems better to do that separately /
later, some careful analysis is required. Even with the lock this is a
significant win on its own.

On a smaller two socket machine this gains another ~1.03x, on a larger
machine the effect is roughly double (earlier patch version tested
though).  If we were able to safely avoid the lock there'd be another
significant gain on top of that.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-08-17 21:08:30 -07:00
Andres Freund f6661d3df2 Fix use of wrong index in ComputeXidHorizons().
This bug, recently introduced in 941697c3c1, at least lead to vacuum
failing because it found tuples inserted by a running transaction, but
below the freeze limit. The freeze limit in turn is directly affected
by the aforementioned bug.

Thanks to Tom Lane figuring how to make the bug reproducible.

We should add a few more assertions to make sure this type of bug
isn't as hard to notice, but it's not yet clear how to best do so.

Co-Diagnosed-By: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1013484.1597609043@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-08-16 14:21:37 -07:00
Noah Misch 676a9c3cc4 Correct several behavior descriptions in comments.
Reuse cautionary language from src/test/ssl/README in
src/test/kerberos/README.  SLRUs have had access to six-character
segments names since commit 73c986adde,
and recovery stopped calling HeapTupleHeaderAdvanceLatestRemovedXid() in
commit 558a9165e0.  The other corrections
are more self-evident.
2020-08-15 20:21:52 -07:00
Noah Misch 566372b3d6 Prevent concurrent SimpleLruTruncate() for any given SLRU.
The SimpleLruTruncate() header comment states the new coding rule.  To
achieve this, add locktype "frozenid" and two LWLocks.  This closes a
rare opportunity for data loss, which manifested as "apparent
wraparound" or "could not access status of transaction" errors.  Data
loss is more likely in pg_multixact, due to released branches' thin
margin between multiStopLimit and multiWrapLimit.  If a user's physical
replication primary logged ":  apparent wraparound" messages, the user
should rebuild standbys of that primary regardless of symptoms.  At less
risk is a cluster having emitted "not accepting commands" errors or
"must be vacuumed" warnings at some point.  One can test a cluster for
this data loss by running VACUUM FREEZE in every database.  Back-patch
to 9.5 (all supported versions).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190218073103.GA1434723@rfd.leadboat.com
2020-08-15 10:15:53 -07:00
Andres Freund 73487a60fc snapshot scalability: Move subxact info to ProcGlobal, remove PGXACT.
Similar to the previous changes this increases the chance that data
frequently needed by GetSnapshotData() stays in l2 cache. In many
workloads subtransactions are very rare, and this makes the check for
that considerably cheaper.

As this removes the last member of PGXACT, there is no need to keep it
around anymore.

On a larger 2 socket machine this and the two preceding commits result
in a ~1.07x performance increase in read-only pgbench. For read-heavy
mixed r/w workloads without row level contention, I see about 1.1x.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-08-14 15:33:35 -07:00
Andres Freund 5788e258bb snapshot scalability: Move PGXACT->vacuumFlags to ProcGlobal->vacuumFlags.
Similar to the previous commit this increases the chance that data
frequently needed by GetSnapshotData() stays in l2 cache. As we now
take care to not unnecessarily write to ProcGlobal->vacuumFlags, there
should be very few modifications to the ProcGlobal->vacuumFlags array.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-08-14 15:33:35 -07:00
Andres Freund 941697c3c1 snapshot scalability: Introduce dense array of in-progress xids.
The new array contains the xids for all connected backends / in-use
PGPROC entries in a dense manner (in contrast to the PGPROC/PGXACT
arrays which can have unused entries interspersed).

This improves performance because GetSnapshotData() always needs to
scan the xids of all live procarray entries and now there's no need to
go through the procArray->pgprocnos indirection anymore.

As the set of running top-level xids changes rarely, compared to the
number of snapshots taken, this substantially increases the likelihood
of most data required for a snapshot being in l2 cache.  In
read-mostly workloads scanning the xids[] array will sufficient to
build a snapshot, as most backends will not have an xid assigned.

To keep the xid array dense ProcArrayRemove() needs to move entries
behind the to-be-removed proc's one further up in the array. Obviously
moving array entries cannot happen while a backend sets it
xid. I.e. locking needs to prevent that array entries are moved while
a backend modifies its xid.

To avoid locking ProcArrayLock in GetNewTransactionId() - a fairly hot
spot already - ProcArrayAdd() / ProcArrayRemove() now needs to hold
XidGenLock in addition to ProcArrayLock. Adding / Removing a procarray
entry is not a very frequent operation, even taking 2PC into account.

Due to the above, the dense array entries can only be read or modified
while holding ProcArrayLock and/or XidGenLock. This prevents a
concurrent ProcArrayRemove() from shifting the dense array while it is
accessed concurrently.

While the new dense array is very good when needing to look at all
xids it is less suitable when accessing a single backend's xid. In
particular it would be problematic to have to acquire a lock to access
a backend's own xid. Therefore a backend's xid is not just stored in
the dense array, but also in PGPROC. This also allows a backend to
only access the shared xid value when the backend had acquired an
xid.

The infrastructure added in this commit will be used for the remaining
PGXACT fields in subsequent commits. They are kept separate to make
review easier.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-08-14 15:33:35 -07:00
Andres Freund 1f51c17c68 snapshot scalability: Move PGXACT->xmin back to PGPROC.
Now that xmin isn't needed for GetSnapshotData() anymore, it leads to
unnecessary cacheline ping-pong to have it in PGXACT, as it is updated
considerably more frequently than the other PGXACT members.

After the changes in dc7420c2c9, this is a very straight-forward change.

For highly concurrent, snapshot acquisition heavy, workloads this change alone
can significantly increase scalability. E.g. plain pgbench on a smaller 2
socket machine gains 1.07x for read-only pgbench, 1.22x for read-only pgbench
when submitting queries in batches of 100, and 2.85x for batches of 100
'SELECT';.  The latter numbers are obviously not to be expected in the
real-world, but micro-benchmark the snapshot computation
scalability (previously spending ~80% of the time in GetSnapshotData()).

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-08-13 16:25:21 -07:00
Andres Freund dc7420c2c9 snapshot scalability: Don't compute global horizons while building snapshots.
To make GetSnapshotData() more scalable, it cannot not look at at each proc's
xmin: While snapshot contents do not need to change whenever a read-only
transaction commits or a snapshot is released, a proc's xmin is modified in
those cases. The frequency of xmin modifications leads to, particularly on
higher core count systems, many cache misses inside GetSnapshotData(), despite
the data underlying a snapshot not changing. That is the most
significant source of GetSnapshotData() scaling poorly on larger systems.

Without accessing xmins, GetSnapshotData() cannot calculate accurate horizons /
thresholds as it has so far. But we don't really have to: The horizons don't
actually change that much between GetSnapshotData() calls. Nor are the horizons
actually used every time a snapshot is built.

The trick this commit introduces is to delay computation of accurate horizons
until there use and using horizon boundaries to determine whether accurate
horizons need to be computed.

The use of RecentGlobal[Data]Xmin to decide whether a row version could be
removed has been replaces with new GlobalVisTest* functions.  These use two
thresholds to determine whether a row can be pruned:
1) definitely_needed, indicating that rows deleted by XIDs >= definitely_needed
   are definitely still visible.
2) maybe_needed, indicating that rows deleted by XIDs < maybe_needed can
   definitely be removed
GetSnapshotData() updates definitely_needed to be the xmin of the computed
snapshot.

When testing whether a row can be removed (with GlobalVisTestIsRemovableXid())
and the tested XID falls in between the two (i.e. XID >= maybe_needed && XID <
definitely_needed) the boundaries can be recomputed to be more accurate. As it
is not cheap to compute accurate boundaries, we limit the number of times that
happens in short succession.  As the boundaries used by
GlobalVisTestIsRemovableXid() are never reset (with maybe_needed updated by
GetSnapshotData()), it is likely that further test can benefit from an earlier
computation of accurate horizons.

To avoid regressing performance when old_snapshot_threshold is set (as that
requires an accurate horizon to be computed), heap_page_prune_opt() doesn't
unconditionally call TransactionIdLimitedForOldSnapshots() anymore. Both the
computation of the limited horizon, and the triggering of errors (with
SetOldSnapshotThresholdTimestamp()) is now only done when necessary to remove
tuples.

This commit just removes the accesses to PGXACT->xmin from
GetSnapshotData(), but other members of PGXACT residing in the same
cache line are accessed. Therefore this in itself does not result in a
significant improvement. Subsequent commits will take advantage of the
fact that GetSnapshotData() now does not need to access xmins anymore.

Note: This contains a workaround in heap_page_prune_opt() to keep the
snapshot_too_old tests working. While that workaround is ugly, the tests
currently are not meaningful, and it seems best to address them separately.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-08-12 16:03:49 -07:00
Andres Freund 3bd7f9969a Track latest completed xid as a FullTransactionId.
The reason for doing so is that a subsequent commit will need that to
avoid wraparound issues. As the subsequent change is large this was
split out for easier review.

The reason this is not a perfect straight-forward change is that we do
not want track 64bit xids in the procarray or the WAL. Therefore we
need to advance lastestCompletedXid in relation to 32 bit xids. The
code for that is now centralized in MaintainLatestCompletedXid*.

Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro, Robert Haas, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-08-11 17:41:18 -07:00
Andres Freund fea10a6434 Rename VariableCacheData.nextFullXid to nextXid.
Including Full in variable names duplicates the type information and
leads to overly long names. As FullTransactionId cannot accidentally
be casted to TransactionId that does not seem necessary.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200724011143.jccsyvsvymuiqfxu@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-08-11 12:07:14 -07:00
Thomas Munro 84b1c63ad4 Preallocate some DSM space at startup.
Create an optional region in the main shared memory segment that can be
used to acquire and release "fast" DSM segments, and can benefit from
huge pages allocated at cluster startup time, if configured.  Fall back
to the existing mechanisms when that space is full.  The size is
controlled by a new GUC min_dynamic_shared_memory, defaulting to 0.

Main region DSM segments initially contain whatever garbage the memory
held last time they were used, rather than zeroes.  That change revealed
that DSA areas failed to initialize themselves correctly in memory that
wasn't zeroed first, so fix that problem.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLAE2QBv-WgGp%2BD9P_J-%3Dyne3zof9nfMaqq1h3EGHFXYQ%40mail.gmail.com
2020-07-31 17:49:58 +12:00
Thomas Munro c5315f4f44 Cache smgrnblocks() results in recovery.
Avoid repeatedly calling lseek(SEEK_END) during recovery by caching
the size of each fork.  For now, we can't use the same technique in
other processes, because we lack a shared invalidation mechanism.

Do this by generalizing the pre-existing caching used by FSM and VM
to support all forks.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D3SSw-Ty1DFcK%3D1rU-K6GSzYzfdD4d%2BZwapdN7dTa6%3DnQ%40mail.gmail.com
2020-07-31 14:29:52 +12:00
Thomas Munro e2d394df5d Use WaitLatch() for condition variables.
Previously, condition_variable.c created a long lived WaitEventSet to
avoid extra system calls.  WaitLatch() now uses something similar
internally, so there is no point in wasting an extra kernel descriptor.

Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJAC4Oqao%3DqforhNey20J8CiG2R%3DoBPqvfR0vOJrFysGw%40mail.gmail.com
2020-07-30 17:42:45 +12:00
Thomas Munro 3347c982ba Use a long lived WaitEventSet for WaitLatch().
Create LatchWaitSet at backend startup time, and use it to implement
WaitLatch().  This avoids repeated epoll/kqueue setup and teardown
system calls.

Reorder SubPostmasterMain() slightly so that we restore the postmaster
pipe and Windows signal emulation before we reach InitPostmasterChild(),
to make this work in EXEC_BACKEND builds.

Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJAC4Oqao%3DqforhNey20J8CiG2R%3DoBPqvfR0vOJrFysGw%40mail.gmail.com
2020-07-30 17:40:00 +12:00
Thomas Munro cb04ad4985 Move syncscan.c to src/backend/access/common.
Since the tableam.c code needs to make use of the syncscan.c routines
itself, and since other block-oriented AMs might also want to use it one
day, it didn't make sense for it to live under src/backend/access/heap.

Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLCnG%3DNEAByg6bk%2BCT9JZD97Y%3DAxKhh27Su9FeGWOKvDg%40mail.gmail.com
2020-07-29 16:59:33 +12:00
Thomas Munro 42dee8b8e3 Fix error message.
Remove extra space.  Back-patch to all releases, like commit 7897e3bb.

Author: Lu, Chenyang <lucy.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/795d03c6129844d3803e7eea48f5af0d%40G08CNEXMBPEKD04.g08.fujitsu.local
2020-07-23 21:10:49 +12:00
Peter Geoghegan 4a70f829d8 Add nbtree Valgrind buffer lock checks.
Holding just a buffer pin (with no buffer lock) on an nbtree buffer/page
provides very weak guarantees, especially compared to heapam, where it's
often safe to read a page while only holding a buffer pin.  This commit
has Valgrind enforce the following rule: it is never okay to access an
nbtree buffer without holding both a pin and a lock on the buffer.

A draft version of this patch detected questionable code that was
cleaned up by commits fa7ff642 and 7154aa16.  The code in question used
to access an nbtree buffer page's special/opaque area with no buffer
lock (only a buffer pin).  This practice (which isn't obviously unsafe)
is hereby formally disallowed in nbtree.  There doesn't seem to be any
reason to allow it, and banning it keeps things simple for Valgrind.

The new checks are implemented by adding custom nbtree client requests
(located in LockBuffer() wrapper functions); these requests are
"superimposed" on top of the generic bufmgr.c Valgrind client requests
added by commit 1e0dfd16.  No custom resource management cleanup code is
needed to undo the effects of marking buffers as non-accessible under
this scheme.

Author: Peter Geoghegan
Reviewed-By: Anastasia Lubennikova, Georgios Kokolatos
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkLgyN3zBvRZ1pkNJThC=xi_0gpWRUb_45eexLH1+k2_Q@mail.gmail.com
2020-07-21 15:50:58 -07:00
Peter Geoghegan 6ca7cd89a2 Assert that buffer is pinned in LockBuffer().
Strengthen the LockBuffer() assertion that verifies BufferIsValid() by
making it verify BufferIsPinned() instead.  Do the same in nearby
related functions.

There is probably not much chance that anybody will try to lock a buffer
that is not already pinned, but we might as well make sure of that.
2020-07-20 16:03:38 -07:00
Peter Geoghegan 46ef520b95 Mark buffers as defined to Valgrind consistently.
Make PinBuffer() mark buffers as defined to Valgrind unconditionally,
including when the buffer header spinlock must be acquired.  Failure to
handle that case could lead to false positive reports from Valgrind.

This theoretically creates a risk that we'll mark buffers defined even
when external callers don't end up with a buffer pin.  That seems
perfectly acceptable, though, since in general we make no guarantees
about buffers that are unsafe to access being reliably marked as unsafe.

Oversight in commit 1e0dfd16, which added valgrind buffer access
instrumentation.
2020-07-19 09:46:44 -07:00
Peter Geoghegan 1e0dfd166b Add Valgrind buffer access instrumentation.
Teach Valgrind memcheck to maintain the "defined-ness" of each shared
buffer based on whether the backend holds at least one pin at the point
it is accessed by access method code.  Bugs like the one fixed by commit
b0229f26 can be detected using this new instrumentation.

Note that backends running with Valgrind naturally have their own
independent ideas about whether any given byte in shared memory is safe
or unsafe to access.  There is no risk that concurrent access by
multiple backends to the same shared memory will confuse Valgrind's
instrumentation, because everything already works at the process level
(or at the memory mapping level, if you prefer).

Author: Álvaro Herrera, Peter Geoghegan
Reviewed-By: Anastasia Lubennikova
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20150723195349.GW5596@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkLgyN3zBvRZ1pkNJThC=xi_0gpWRUb_45eexLH1+k2_Q@mail.gmail.com
2020-07-17 17:49:45 -07:00